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    Veronica Randolph Batterson
    “When you turn around, you'll see something I bet you've never seen before. If it takes your breath away, then you'll fit in nicely. If you don't feel anything, then maybe you don't belong here.”
    Veronica Randolph Batterson, Daniel's Esperanza

  • #2
    Veronica Randolph Batterson
    “Dancing. I couldn't understand the fascination my brother had for it, but I could respect what it meant to him. How could one imagine and wonder about something so simple? An action most take for granted, yet to those with limited abilities, it's as special as floating on a cloud and snatching the nearest star from the sky to stuff in your pocket so you might wish upon it whenever you choose.”
    Veronica Randolph Batterson, Billy's First Dance

  • #3
    Veronica Randolph Batterson
    “Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl. - DANIEL'S ESPERANZA”
    Veronica Randolph Batterson, Daniel's Esperanza

  • #4
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #5
    Stephen  King
    “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
    Stephen King

  • #6
    Stephen  King
    “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #7
    Stephen  King
    “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
    Stephen King

  • #8
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #9
    Charles M. Schulz
    “There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the flavor out of a peanut butter sandwich.”
    Charles M. Schulz

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    C.S. Lewis
    “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #12
    Louisa May Alcott
    “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience

  • #13
    Barry Eisler
    “If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.”
    Barry Eisler

  • #14
    Louise Fitzhugh
    “Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.”
    Louise Fitzhugh

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

  • #16
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #17
    David  Mitchell
    “If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
    David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

  • #18
    David  Mitchell
    “You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #19
    Veronica Randolph Batterson
    “Stallions," Frank said, "they're fightin' over a girl.”
    Veronica Randolph Batterson



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