"If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em."

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Gail Carson Levine

#Writing Quotes #Ems Quotes #Bores Quotes

“I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.”
“Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.”

Source : Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
“I'm in love, with a higher love!”
“Shaun has working his audience into a frenzy down to a science; by the time he's done with them, they get excited by the mysterious discovery of pocket lint. It's impressive, but I'd rather watch him move. There's something wonderful about the way he lets go, becoming all energy and excitement as he outlines what's coming next. Maybe it's geeky for a girl my age to admit she still loves her brother. I don't care. I love him, and one day I'll bury him, and until then, I'm going to be grateful that I'm allowed to watch him talk.”
“When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.”

Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc
“I mean, I'm a writer, actor, AND director. Not to rock the boat or anything, but compare that to a carpenter and, in the end, who is the better man?”
“As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.”
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.”

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