"Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story."

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Source : Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

Jillian Medoff

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.”
“I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.”
“We should want our advertising to be compelling.”
“It is not a question of religion, or of creed, or of party; it is a question of declaring and maintaining the great American principle of eternal separation between Church and State.”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
“Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.”
“The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.”

Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.10
“Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.”

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