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Don Marquis

"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

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Amber Hurdle

"No writer can be the 'Master of the Words' without loving them! Loving is the way for Mastering! No Love, no Master!"

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Amber Hurdle

"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

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Amber Hurdle

"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."

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Amber Hurdle

"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

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Amber Hurdle

"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."

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Amber Hurdle

"I like bubbles in everything. I respect the power of silence. In cold or warm weather I favor a mug of hot cocoa. I admire cats-their autonomy, grace, and mystery. I awe at the fiery colors in a sunset. I believe in deity. I hear most often with my eyes, and I will trust a facial expression before any accompanying comment. I invent rules, words, adventures, and imaginary friends. I pretend something wonderful every day. I will never quit pretending."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

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Amber Hurdle

"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

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Don Marquis
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

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Don Marquis
"I would rather start a family than finish one."

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Don Marquis
"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

People

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Don Marquis
"The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram."

Art

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Don Marquis
"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

Family

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Don Marquis
"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."

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Don Marquis
"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."

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Don Marquis
"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

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Don Marquis
"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

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Don Marquis
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

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