Lois Duncan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried to do anything to you ?his armed tighted around her.'he knew the worst thing for me was a world without you
-- Lois Duncan

#Rays #Bud #Why Not
We are the wise. Do not envy usâ€” We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdomâ€” We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.
-- Lois Duncan

#Wise #Hurt #Fire
Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.
-- Lois Duncan

#Writing #Self #Crafts
Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.
-- Lois Duncan

#Goal #Survival #Stronger
Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.
-- Lois Duncan

#Building
If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity
-- Lois Duncan

#Past #Years #Bird
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed â€“ they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.
-- Lois Duncan

#Spring #Character #Blue
December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.
-- Lois Duncan

#Heart #Want #Months
Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.
-- Lois Duncan

#Mind #Machines #Stories

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.
If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.
[Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by proving once or twice a week that life is unconquerable but endurable.
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-
If someone stands in front of one of my paintings and says, 'This is just a mess', the word 'just' is not so good, but 'mess' might be right. Why not a mess? If it makes you say, 'Wow, I've never seen anything like that', that's beautiful.
If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Lois Duncan famous quotes

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