"I've often wished when I started a book I knew what was going to happen. I talked to writers who write 80-page outlines, and I'm just in awe of that."

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Source : "Charlaine Harris, living and dying in Bon Temps". Interview with John Williford, www.popmatters.com. May 14, 2012.

Charlaine Harris

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“I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way-under the hoop.”
“The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?”
“Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.”

Source : Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.11, Oneworld Publications
“Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.”
“It was about 5 years after I was baptized before the pull of sin finally stopped.”
“I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.”

Source : Simone Signoret (1986). “Adieu, Volodya: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
“I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.”
“Poetry cannot take sides except with life.”

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