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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Angry Backgrounds Before Characters
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It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Admit Difficult Hate Honest
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

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I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

Admit Among Crushes Elizabeth
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Always Back Been Book
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No matter what your profession is, it's good to scare yourself a little from time to time! It's crucial to keep challenging yourself and to learn from people who are more accomplished than you are.

Accomplished Challenging Crucial From
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Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.

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We all know that being able to express deep emotion can literally save a person's life, and suppressing emotion can kill you both spiritually and physically.

Able Being Both Deep
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When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

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The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as people - our characters or souls - can be shaped or changed by outside influences.

About Any Blown Changed
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Love is always a leap into the unknown. You can try to control as many variables, and understand a situation as you can, but you're still jumping off a cliff and hoping that someone catches you.

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This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

Critics Feelings Hurt Know
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I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

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I've always been a reader and a writer.

Always Been Reader Writer
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Discovering Fantasy Forever Ideas
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

About Book Easy Finishing
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

Because Craft Finish Hard
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Appreciate Been Brain Easier
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Common Extraordinary Great Make
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Alone Chance Environment Golden
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Analyzing Career Got Ingredient
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Become Control Destiny Fail
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Cannot Did Failures Get
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Success Measured Accomplish Opposition
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Medicine Hope Incentive Great
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Keep People Unwilling Price
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Power Discover Inside Dream
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Opportunities Power Latent Eye
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Stumbling Block Defeat Weak
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Man Learned Secret Drudgery
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Keep Joyfulness Heart Face
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles Melt Cowering Minds
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Great Cable Habit Invincible
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Upright You Honest Interest
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Grateful Life Habit Gratitude
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say

Man Individuality Courage Conviction
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Failure Lost Courage Character
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