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    Douglas Adams
    “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
    tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: humor, writing
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    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    ― Toni Morrison
    tags: books, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
    tags: writing
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    Saul Bellow
    “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
    ― Saul Bellow
    tags: imagination, inspiration, writing
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    Stephen King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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    “I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: writing
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: emphasis, exclamation-points, style, writing
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    Mark Twain
    “My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
    ― Mark Twain, Notebook
    tags: books, writing
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    Cornelia Funke
    “Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”
    ― Cornelia Funke
    tags: books, character, cornelia-funke, existentialism, words, writers, writing
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    Cyril Connolly
    “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

    [The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
    ― Cyril Connolly
    tags: faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
    tags: inspirational
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: fantasy
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!
    tags: comedy, life, yourself
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    Dr. Seuss
    “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: troubles
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: adulthood, childhood
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    Abigail Owen
    “It’s not smart to piss off a dragon.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: dragon-romance, fantasy-romance, paranormal-romance
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    Abigail Owen
    “Has anyone ever told you that you’re hot as a giant lizard?”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: demon, dragons, fantasy, hellhound, paranormal-romance, phoenix, romance
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    Abigail Owen
    “Do you have a thing against knights?”

    “Pretty boys who run around slaying dragons to save the fair maiden?” He let the sarcasm dangle for a moment. “Nah. I’m just not one.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: demon, dragons, fantasy, paranormal-romance, romance, vampires, wolves
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    Abigail Owen
    “You know telling someone not to worry is like telling the sun not to shine, don’t you?” she prodded. “It’s just going to keep shining anyway, because that’s what it does.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: demons, dragons, fantasy, first-in-series, hellhound, phoenix, romance, vampires, wolves
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    Abigail Owen
    “I’d trust him with my life… unless a decision came down to my life or his.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: demon, dragon-romance, fantasy-romance, hellhound, paranormal-romance, phoenix-romance, vampires, wolves
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    Abigail Owen
    “What? No unicorns? Maybe a leprechaun or two?”

    You have to catch one first,” Brand deadpanned.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: dragons, paranormal-romance
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    Abigail Owen
    “He was a big, bad dragon shifter, a breed of male she realized took Neanderthal to a whole new level.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: demon, dragon-romance, fantasy-romance, hellhound, paranormal-romance, phoenix-romance, vampires, wolves
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    Abigail Owen
    “I used to think fate was a cruel as dragon-shifters, but now..."
    "Now?"
    "Now I think fate set me on a path to you."
    "I've loved you since the moment you stole my car.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: paranormal-romance
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    Abigail Owen
    “That's sweet and all, but we can't hold this bastard down much longer," Wyot, one of the dragons on top of Uther, grumbled.
    Brand lifted his head and grinned, "Shall we kill a king, my queen?"
    She laughed, pure joy erupting from the blackness that had consumed her. "By all means.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: paranormal-romance
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    Abigail Owen
    “Another phoenix. Impossible.
    On the heels of that realization came another.
    Mimicking her posture, he crossed his arms and smiled back. "You shouldn't have revealed your presence to me, little firebird.
    Narrowed eyes shot sparks at him. "And why not?" she challenged.
    "Because now you're mine.”
    ― Abigail Owen, The Rogue King
    tags: paranormal-romance
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