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“In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns.”
― Raymond Chandler

“I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Lion's Mane

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
― Winston Churchill

“The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.”
― Kim Vogel Sawyer, Courting Miss Amsel

“If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”
― C.S. Lewis

“First of all, these are not QUOTES...they are QUOTATIONS”
― Joseph Fountain

“Things are the way they are now, more than they ever have been before.”
― Gerald R. Ford

“Hope is a torturous thing. It wrenches one from despair just long enough to allow one to take a breath before plunging her back beneath the icy waters. If it wasn't for those breaths, it would be easy to let ice claim the soul. Easy to let surrender swallow the struggle. But hope - cruel mistress that she is - is not satisfied with so neat an ending. Like a house cat with a tiny prisoner, she wants only to torment the soul again, and again, until it dies from a burst heart.”
― Sarah K.L. Wilson, Give Your Heart to the Barrow