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A fiction opening, too, should arouse curiosity

Remember that kids-and many adults- are used to the TV's remote control and the computer's mouse as they surf the internet. Both allow them to zap away from anything boring with the flick of a finger.

These days, many editors do more acquiring than editing

No matter what you're writing, never use language that talks down to your readers. Choose words because they sound right, not because they're cute.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

I am not the mouth for these ears...now I speak to them as to the goatherds

One must be a sea to receive a polluted river without becoming defiled

My alpaca hat gives me maybe ten more minutes to get myself out of trouble. My wool socks, perhaps an extra fifteen before frostbite interferes with my ballet career

Well, not much except, at its best, a complex, repetitive, visual, spatial task that develops hand-eye coordination, enhances neural connectivity, and uses both hemispheres of the brain at once. That's all, but people can't see that...

so knitting mittens seems bonkers when you can simply buy the ones that grow on trees?

I was on the bus and she was on the bus. I was knitting and churning out a sock, while she was sitting there doing an impression of a rock, and somehow I was the one who had a bucket of free time?

The fall of our footsteps rings hollow through their streets. And what if at at night, when they are sleeping in their beds, they hear a man walking abroad long before sunrise? Will they not ask themselves: 'Where goes the thief?'

Save a little something for the end-a twist, an irony, an unexpected resolution

a good beginning hooks the reader,but a great picture book hooks on every page

Nonfiction picture books need to hook their readers and set up a kind of contract, a promise of what's to come."Once, a long long time ago, someone took the whole wide world and split it into seasons"

for every success story, there are 10 failed manuscripts taking up space in my attic

skipped chapter 11 & 12

so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

was too wise ever to carry well forgotten dreams from age to age

I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating feverish warmth because it couldn't be over dreamed-that voice was a deathless song

"It makes me sad because I've never seen such-- such beautiful shirts before."...lol...is this a joke?

I'm the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me. At night when you're asleep, Into your tent I'll creep.

Finest specimens of human molars

as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

This isn't just an epigram- life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in the world haven't had the advantages that you've had"

most borderlines get better over time with or without treatment

Borderline rage often cannot be reasoned with, so discussion and debate are unnecessary and may only inflame the situation

borderline rage is often terrifying in its unpredictability and intensity. It may be sparked by relatively insignificant events and explode without warning. It may be directed at previously valued people. The threat of violence frequently accompanies this anger. All of these features make borderline rage much different from typical anger.

السلالات التي حكم عليها القدر حكما حتميا بزمن من العزلة يمتد مئة عام لن تكون لها فرصة أخرى للعيش على وجه الارض