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That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which.
When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sins, you know, and cry tears while doing it that are genuine as any.
You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.
If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.
I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.
It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.
She suspects her husband, Jake, might be gay." "Did you suggest she ask him?" Mom laughed. "Of course not. Business is slow.
The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.
A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.
Classical heroes are usually much larger than life. They're not quite human beings. They're somehow larger than human scale.
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.
Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.
A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
There are people looking for exactly what you have to offer, and you are being brought together on the checkerboard of life.
Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent upon your prosperity consciousness.
Challenges are opportunities for me to grow. The more I learn, the more equipped I am to handle whatever situations come up.
I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.
The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.
I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.
This be OK?' I asked, innocently. 'You want me to have no skin left?' You rolled your eyes. Actually, don't answer that one.
Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.
My hopes are that I can give my children security, health, and the confidence to create the life they want and serve others.
The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.
Before he turned away, I asked, 'What do you need?' 'I need you. I need to give you a proper kiss. I need you to be my mate.
"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.
I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
I honor my grief. I try to be kinder to myself. I give myself time to move through and to process whatever is making me sad.
Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.
I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
Sometimes, the sun sets earlier. Days don’t last forever, you know. But I’ll fight as hard as I can. I can promise you that.
I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
The very notion of superiority of one kind over another will have to disappear, although differences among kind will remain.
Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.
Isn't it amazing that the God who is in total control of this universe will take time out of His day to hear us pray to Him?
Meditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.
My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.
'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.