"I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game."

-- Gail Carson Levine

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“I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."”
“We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.”

Source : Marvin Olasky (1994). “The Tragedy of American Compassion”, p.232, Regnery Publishing
“Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”
“When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.”
“Man is the being who is involuntarily and voluntarily busy with himself and his surroundings, between two broadcasting stations of good and evil, until one or the other ultimately prevails.”
“Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.”
“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."”
“This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.”

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