Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
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Lauren Oliver
Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.
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Janet Evanovich
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn't have any.
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Jean Rhys
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals,...
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Azar Nafisi
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.
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Michel Houellebecq
More Quotes By Patricia C. Wrede
I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd...
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
Well, ” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?”“ Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.”“I didn’t ask what you’d said about it, ” the frog snapped. “I asked...
Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever...
Mendanbar took a deep breath. “You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me.” This wasn’t coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He hurried on, “As Queen of...
