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"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space." Orson Scott Card

“Takeoff and landing are considered the most dangerous parts of a flight. And so it goes with stories.” Jenifer Hixson

Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain. Eleanor Roosevelt

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.” Margaret Atwood

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but only if you have the time. Craig Brown

“There’s a kind of ear music … a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.” Allan Gurganus

“When you want to move readers excitedly along, keep your sentences short and crisp. If you’re describing a languid trip down a lazy river, however, allow your sentence lengths to match that slower pace.” David A. Fryxell

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves...

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. H. L. Mencken

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven. Douglas Horton

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. Will Durant

"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet service to see who they really are." Will Ferrell

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly. Juvenal

People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman

“The common stories are one plus one equals two. We get it, they make sense. But the good stories are about one plus one equals three.” Ken Burns