"I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose."

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Jeffery Deaver

#Writing Quotes #Eight Quotes #Months Quotes

“People always ask you, 'What's your dream job?' This is my dream job. It really is a dream opportunity to have your own nationwide daily sports talk show for an hour.”
“Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.”

Source : Sam Levenson (2016). “You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson”, p.83, Open Road Media
“You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.”
“Guess what it is that turns plants to coal. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns limestone to marble. Pressure. Guess what it is that turns Briony's heart to stone. Pressure. Pressure is uncomfortable, but so are the gallows. Keep your secrets, wolfgirl. Dance your fists with Eldric's, snatch lightning from the gods. Howl at the moon, at the blood-red moon. Let your mouth be a cavern of stars.”
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”
“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
“I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.”
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

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