"My mother was a children's librarian. I remember……" — Patricia Briggs
"My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind."
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285 Quotes by Patricia Briggs
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Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand…
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Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn't matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power…
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The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
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During my last year of college I wrote the same ten pages over and over again. Those ten pages became…
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in…
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds…
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I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude…
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving…
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when…
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The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going…
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking…
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
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