"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

-- Dorothy Fields

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“Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.”
“In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.”
“Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy.”
“Today, Iâ€™m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesnâ€™t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.”
“Power has for so long been a male construct that it distorted the shape of the first women who tried it on, only to find themselves in a sort of straitjacket.”
“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”
“Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need he be some genius, or wealthy, Lord, at all; but let his head be high, dear God, and let his eye be clear, his shoulders straight, whate'er his state, whate'er his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness if soul, and let his whole life show, dear God, a singleness of goal; then when he comes (as he will come) with quiet eyes aglow, I'll understand that he's the man I prayed for long ago.”

Source : Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.51, Thomas Nelson
“I have personally believed in every product I have ever advertised.”

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