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I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it…
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I…
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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours.…
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It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage…
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When…
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If you’re a parent in 2013, you have to get your hands on this book. Wise, engrossing, and so real that I…
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something…
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I do think I was trying to entertain the reader more than I was trying to purge myself.
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I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
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High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages.…
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I'm so trying to give up meat.
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Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary,…
— James J. Kilpatrick
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But words - words are not enough!
— Klaus Kinski
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It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons.…
— Richard Kadrey
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When you work with words, words are your work.
— Don Knotts
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Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people…
— Francis Chan
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Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.
— Lesley Howarth
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Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.
— Sharon M. Draper
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I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than…
— Rickie Lee Jones
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Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value;…
— Zhuangzi
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This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have…
— Livy
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So, that was Nature's way. The mosquito felt pain and panic but the dragonfly knew nothing of cruelty. Humans would call it…
— John Marsden
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the…
— Francis Bacon
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