Kathryn Bettendorf
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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
The Scribblers' Notebook--Post Apocalypse
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RP Writing Hopefully, our end result will be a work worth publishing. :) Let's see, shall we? You are one of the few survivors left to battle the epi ...more
The Scribblers' Notebook--RP Writing
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— last activity Oct 11, 2013 06:46PM
RP Writing Hopefully, our end result will be a work worth publishing. :) Let's see, shall we? Still deciding on which genre we want to do?? ...more
The Scribblers' Notebook
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This is the Goodreads page for the Scribblers' Notebook, an authors' society. ...more
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