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  • #1
    Jayne Ann Krentz
    “Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”
    Jayne Ann Krentz

  • #2
    Alan             Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    Alan Moore

  • #3
    Jayne Ann Krentz
    “Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.”
    Jayne Ann Krentz

  • #4
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    Marie Curie

  • #5
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #6
    Jayne Ann Krentz
    “Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly”
    Jayne Ann Krentz, Running Hot

  • #7
    Jayne Ann Krentz
    “Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends"
    "I already know how it ends"
    "You read the ending first?"
    "I always read the ending before I commit to the whole book."
    "If you know how it ends, why read the book?"
    "I don't read for the ending. I read for the story".”
    Jayne Ann Krentz, Running Hot

  • #8
    Nora Roberts
    “You can fix anything but a blank page.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #9
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
    Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

  • #11
    Nora Roberts
    “Every time I hear writers talk about ‘the muse,’ I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.”
    Nora Roberts

  • #12
    Jarod Kintz
    “I have a good ear for music, just like Van Gogh had a good ear for art.”
    Jarod Kintz, How to construct a coffin with six karate chops

  • #13
    Anna Bayes
    “People who label erotica writers as sluts/men-whores remind me of the mob that once condemned smart women as witches. Mankind has not evolved much.”
    Anna Bayes

  • #14
    Jarod Kintz
    “If it’s the last kiss, we’d better make it last. I hope you don’t have anywhere to be, because I have the rest of my life free.”
    Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Thomas Mann
    “A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
    Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

  • #17
    C.J. Cherryh
    “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
    C. J. Cherryh



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