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4391 Novelist Quotes

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Alive Beyond Cannot Complete
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Affluence means influence.

Affluence Influence Means
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

Francisco Gone Memories Nothing
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Class God His Mother
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Cash Come Fame Without
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Cards Good Hand Holding
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Continually Darn Gear Must
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Cannot Having Itself Nature
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
Interpret Life Rather Short
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Do You Know Itself Know Life
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Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Both Common Deal Delight
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I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.

About Always Career Come
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I loved the process of writing.

Loved Process Writing
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I decided to write category romance as I'd recently discovered them, and enjoyed them.

Category Decided Discovered Enjoyed
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In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

Book Bought First Silhouette
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Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Action Any Characters Come
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I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.

Bulk Certainly Communicating Email
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I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Being Gotten Know Number
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I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Least Love Love Stories Stories
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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.
Else Falling Greatest Pleasures
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I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Genres Lot Read Variety
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If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Category Expectations Framework Knowing
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I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

America Believe Groups I Believe
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Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Before Best Different Discard
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You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.
Find Job Make Time
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I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

Everywhere Goes Indeed Laptop
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Every single book is a challenge.

Book Challenge Every Single
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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Best Book Each Effort
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Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.

Certainly Dealing Difficult Difficult Thing
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I need to write to be happy.

Be Happy Happy Need Write
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My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.

Came Family I Came Important
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I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Down Draft First Generally
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I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

Change Draft Edit Fiddle
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I would hope that my writing's cleaner than it was when I started.

Cleaner Hope Started Than
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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Any Base Character Either
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Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Actually Characters Develop Family
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Any Aspect Character Important
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Adult Children Marriage Produce
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The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

Combination Like Locked LockedUp
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Eating Emotional Escape Gluttony
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

After Car Children Deliver
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance

Again Alive Another Back
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The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Any Bonds Like Matrimony
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Character Difficulty Fall Live
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Being ILove Love Paperwork
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Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

Celibacy Form Worst
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Food Mural Museums Par
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The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

Certainly Instruments Lower Most
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Bear Begin Broken Homes
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