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"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)

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"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia, men, peabody, women
288 people liked it

"I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it."
— Elizabeth Peters

tags: amelia-peabody, humor, women
12 people liked it

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
1,365 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
513 people liked it

"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
— Stephen King

tags: reading, writing
960 people liked it

"Good books don't give up all their secrets at once."
— Stephen King

tags: books
481 people liked it

"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. (from the introduction)"
— Stephen King (Skeleton Crew)

tags: reading, writing
174 people liked it

"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

150 people liked it

"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."
— Stephen King (Bag of Bones)

tags: humor
93 people liked it

"Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to."
— Stephen King (Dolores Claiborne)

tags: bitch
193 people liked it

"It is the tale, not he who tells it."
— Stephen King

tags: writing
56 people liked it

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."
— Stephen King

tags: inspirational, philosophy
59 people liked it

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