"I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982."

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J. A. Jance

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

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“I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.”
“You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.”
“For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.”
“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”
“Peace cannot be achieved except after the cessation of military escalation and the economic and financial siege.”
“My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.”
“The die is now cast; the colonies must either submit or triumph.... we must not retreat.”

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