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"I'm dense when it comes to discouragement."
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"If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer."
"Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy."
"Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured."
"It took me about 12 years to reach my million-word mark. The challenge now is to continue to challenge myself."
"My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history."
"Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment."
"Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the tide washes up at their feet."
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"Why do women spend so much time in talking to their female peers? The answer can again be found in the process of biological evolution of the human mind. Just like the evolutionary expression of aggression in men, gossiping is an evolutionary feature of the female psychology. Women trade various secrets from their personal experiences through gossiping in order to create connection and intimacy with their female peers."
"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"
"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."
"I tend to avoid people who always have something to say - and those who expect me to always have something to say."
"Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering.-Caroline to Ursual."
"Words speak to the the mind through the ears and actions speak to the mind through the eye."
"A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare and choose one! Speak politely, but be sure you get to where you are going with your words."
"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"
"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
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