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"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
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"I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!"
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"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."
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"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."
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"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
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"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."
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"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."
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"Don't jump on the bandwagon just because everyone's doing so."
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"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."
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"Don't follow the crowd; create your own path."
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"She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be."
Relationship
"Rekindled love is generally short-term."
Love
"To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was."
Work
"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."
Reading
"A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1."
Writing
"I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns."
Life
"Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever."
Business
"I suppose I'm most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone."
Writing
"I love autumn", Emily said to me. "It wins you over with its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
Nature
"I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex."
Sex
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