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I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry.

Around the creators of new values revolves the world:- invisibly it revolves. But around the actors revolve the people and the glory

A free life is yet possible for great souls. He who possesses little is that much less possessed: blessed be a little poverty!

They all strive for the throne: this is their madness- as if happiness sat on the throne! Often filth sits on the throne.- and often also the throne on filth.

ch 11- They clamber over one another, and thus pull each other into the mud and the abyss.

Let your love of life be love of your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Not your sympathy, but your bravery has before now saved the unfortunate.

Ch 10- Let your work be a battle, let your peace be a victory!

ch 10- And if you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and precursors of such saints.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday.

Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we kill. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate reading idlers.

Chapter 7-OF ALL that is written, I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

a half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art

If you find a non knitter who thinks what you do is clever, beautiful, and artistic; who never asks for knitted stuff but wears it with pride when you give it to him or her; and will help you carry home a whole fleece or a stack of stitch dictionaries without once implying that you might want to get a grip, marry that person

for even though his gauge swatch had twenty eight stitches to four inches, it turned out that Cabled actually harbored a secret desire to have twenty two stitches to four inches

Chapter 5-He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

Chapter3 - Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself

Chapter 3

He that feeds the hungry refreshes his own soul,

It was your good fortune to be laughed at: and verily you spoke like a fool

Think of a query letter as an invitation to the editor...nothing turns off most editors faster than query letters with melodramatic leads-" what would you do ...."

I'd worked as a children's book editor for more than 15 years, but still I felt uncertain. Did I have what it took to be a writer, or would I just make a fool of myself?

No matter how hard you work on your writing, don't fall in love with every word. Writing can always be improved, and sometimes that means cutting large chunks of it

If you refer to events that happened before the story begins, be sure to use the past perfect tense by inserting the word "had"

One of the best ways to improve any kind of writing is to use active verbs that express the motion you're describing

The purpose of tag lines is to help the reader keep track of who is speaking. They shouldn't draw attention to themselves; in fact they should be almost invisible in the reader's mind

If there's a mistake on the very first page, I assume there are mechanical errors and typos all through the manuscript. I don't have time to do that kind of editing

Too much backstory and you'll lose the focus of your character's problem in unimportant background details...also slows the pace of your story and when the pace lags, you're in danger of losing your reader

Inexperienced writers frequently start a story too early...rewriting a slow opening can be the key to a creative revision