"If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge."

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Jillian Medoff

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up my book. I think the one thing that will kill that relationship is if you feel me condescending to you in the process.”
“The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.”
“If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.”
“Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
“For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!”
“Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.”
“Life and study have persuaded me of the openness of history. There is no inevitability in history. Thinking about what might have happened, what could have happened, is a necessary element in trying to understand what did happen. And if, as I believe, individual acts of decency and courage make a difference, then they need to be recorded and remembered.”

Source : Fritz Stern (2007). “Five Germanys I Have Known”, p.10, Macmillan
“In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.”

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