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8803 Writer Quotes

It is important not to trust people too much.

Important Much People Too
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

Down Feel Letting People
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.

Ancient Countryside Earth Favourite
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

Big Business Getting Go
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Been Begin Children Could
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.

Art Contain Elements Error
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
Folly Friend May Part
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Am Chapters Costs Could
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

Been Chosen Heart Must
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Child Feel Home House
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Short cuts make long delays.
Cuts Delays Long Make
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

Always Come Had Home
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All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Deep Does Frost Glitter
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

Been Business Foolish Grandeur
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.

Any Anything Even Fit
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
Big Book Enterprise Making
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Always Beginning Book Chapter
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.

Action Before Dive Down
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I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

Beat Board Cards Hits
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.

Actual Any Before Beginning
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art Arts College Fine
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Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

Background Behind Hideous Know
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Contents Correlate Human Human Mind
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

Abyss Black Delving Fascination
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Best Creation Deepest Emotion
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
Comic Indeed Joke Mankind
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There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Dare Myself Places Say
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
End Journey Like Song
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
After Far Haunt Horror
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We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.

After Cats Dark Dogs
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

Ancient Dreams Memories More
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Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
Black Blue Green Grey
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Books Lore Men More
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What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

Beauty Does Everything He
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

About Ask Business Dreams
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Before Books Floor Furniture
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

About Am Any Backed
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.

Bunch Chosen Crime Dark
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If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Artificial Backgrounds Conformity Consequences
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

Depressing Joy Nearly Pursuing
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Correct Could Create England
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Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

Anything Bet Care End
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
Demanded Enthusiasm Fear Flags
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Accept Best Content Craves
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

Black Far Ignorance Infinity
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

Absent Even Greatest Horrors
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All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in the cosmos-at-large.

Based Common Emotions Fundamental
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