Quotes - Cedar Sanderson (Franklin, OH) Showing 1-30 of 72

#1

“I've got to think of a hundred and sixty million Americans, not of the three or four that happen to be the ones I love. And it wouldn't be a big thing - security is built on lots of little thing. I don't like to talk about it. (Calhoun Hightower in Danger for Breakfast)”
― John McPartland

tags: noir-fiction, post-war-espionage, pulp-fiction, spy-thriller

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#2

“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: inspirational, writing

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#3

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
― Robert Heinlein

tags: wisdom

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#4

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

tags: adult, childishness, maturity

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#5

“I mean, what can you say about how you write your books? What I mean is, first you've got to think of something, and then when you've thought of it you've got to force yourself to sit down and write it. That's all." ~ Mrs. Oliver”
― Agatha Christie, Dead Man's Folly

tags: writing, writing-life

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#6

“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes. ”
― Agatha Christie

tags: writing

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#7

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

tags: commitment, creative-process, professionalism, writing

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#8

“I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
― Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party

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#9

“Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.”
― Sarah A. Hoyt, DarkShip Thieves

tags: athena, darkship, thena, thieves

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#10

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”
― Louis L'Amour

tags: reading-books

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#11

“A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
― Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir

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#12

“The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.”
― Louis L'Amour

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#13

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

tags: inspirational, sci-fi, vorkosigan

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#14

“My home is not a place, it is people.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

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#15

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

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#16

“The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity

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#17

“The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia's Honor

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#18

“This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.
Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion

tags: moving-forward, prayer

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#19

“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
― Mickey Spillane

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#20

“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
― Mickey Spillane

tags: writing, writing-craft, writing-process

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#21

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

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#22

“If you have a story that seems worth telling, and you think you can tell it worthily, then the thing for you to do is to tell it, regardless of whether it has to do with sex, sailors or mounted policemen.”
― Dashiell Hammett

tags: sex, writing

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#23

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: on-writing, revision, writing

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#24

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food cake.”
― Raymond Chandler

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#26

“Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

tags: love, sacrifice

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#27

“I comfort myself with the reflection that your wife will possibly be able to curb your desire--I admit, a natural one for the most part--to exterminate your fellows.”
― Georgette Heyer, Devil's Cub

tags: romance

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#28

“Depend upon it, you are just the sort of girl a man would be glad to have for his sister! You don't even know how to swoon, and I daresay if you tried you would make wretched work of it, for all you have is common sense, and of what use is that, pray?”
― Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

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#29

“People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit.”
― Georgette Heyer, Death in the Stocks

tags: grammar, humor, women

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#30

“Will you marry me, vile and abominable girl that you are?

Yes, but, mind, it only to save my neck from being wrung!”
― Georgette Heyer, The Grand Sophy

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#31

“...Gentlemen don't understand anything, however wise they may be.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

tags: men

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