"My child, you have a flawed grasp of……" — Frances Hardinge
"My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic."
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Frances Hardinge
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42 Quotes by Frances Hardinge
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Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page…
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Perhaps illnesses could be left behind, just like small, badly concealed china corpses.
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True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
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If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do…
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Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain…
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Where is your sense of patriotism?" I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent.…
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If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never…
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The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.
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Oh, painted smirk of a hopeless dawn, the girl is still wearing her breeches...
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I want my chirfugging goose back!
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You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent
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I am anything I wish to be. The world cannot choose for me. No, it is for me to choose…
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of…
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The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite…
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but…
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You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
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I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also…
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I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true.
— William Shakespeare
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What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest…
— Michael Hutchence
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Besides my fast and slooow songs, I further divide my work into three main song types: the ballad or story…
— David Massengill
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I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings…
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Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
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I have always been a sucker for ballads, but you have to be careful these days, you can't overload people.
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