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Darynda Jones

"I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging."

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"I think the first draft is so challenging because that elusive BALANCE is so challenging."

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"You would be amazed by how I can torture the English language. I am an abusive lover."

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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

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"Develop your own skills and styles. In music, designing, electronics, etc., you may have a peculiar way of exposing your dreams in an uncommon way."

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"A creative mind is a spark of divinity."

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"Flawed genius is better than flawless talent."

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"People have many cruel expectations from writers. People expect novelists to live on a hill with three kids and a spouse, people expect children's story writers to never have sex, and people expect all great poets to be dead. And these are all very difficult expectations to fulfill, I think."

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Amber Hurdle

"I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life."

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"If imagination is your wealth, then ideas are your abode."

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"We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing."
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"Step back and scrutinize your work, to delve deep into the meaning behind the words, it will get both easier in some ways and harder in others. Either way, you need to practice everyday. You will probably get faster with time, because you learn to do this instinctively, and the writing may flow better on some days more than others, but it doesn't get easier. And if you aren't writing everyday, you are doing yourself and your craft a disservice. Writing is a habit. Get into the habit."
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"Does Uncle Bob have anything?""I heard he has an STD.""I mean on the women.""Oh, I have no idea if they have any STDs."
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"Amber was busy flirting with a rookie named Dead Meat if he didn't stop flirting back. She was eleven, for heaven's sake! Of course, he may have just been humoring her. And it was a little cute. In a gross, Chester-the-molester kind of way."
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"Paperwork wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for all the paper. And the work."
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"If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition."
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"I sort of got off on making bad guys sweat. Which was not unlike my love of making good guys sweat, just by very different means."
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Darynda Jones
"Developing your voice takes... time and practice."
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"We all have a certain knowledge about how the universe works. And when someone comes along and challenges that knowledge, we don't know how to deal with it. We aren't hardwired that way. It's difficult to question everything you've ever thought to be true. So, like I said, it's not your fault. You can believe me or not, but whichever you choose, you're the one who has to deal with the consequences. So make your decision wisely, grasshopper."
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Darynda Jones
"I still had my hand on his side, careful not to press. He reached out and hooked a finger into the belt loop on my jeans. It felt so natural, so fulfilling, to be there with him. To talk with him as if we did it everyday. As if we'd been doung it every day for years. Not even the heat of Ian's fury could penetrate the warmth I was getting from Reyes."
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