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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.
Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.
Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat
Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again.
America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.
...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.
Every thought has a consequence. And every experience has a causative thought behind it.
It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
Give a wise man an honest brief to plead and his eloquence is no remarkable achievement.
High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.
For me, writing clarifies things. It gives meaning, and it makes me see the connections.
I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.
How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?
In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.
There were occasionally rifts in the cloud where the face of a woman appeared, frowning.
Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
When I am writing a novel I try not to read great prose stylists into which I will fall.
Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.
There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.
Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.
I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home when it comes to Wearing what you like.
Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
I will have reached the point of greatest strength once I have learned to wait for hope.
Successful movements also need an organisational model that allows them to keep growing.
My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.
There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.
The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.
If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
I use not casual phrases but imagistic phrases that create a rhythm of natural presence.
Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller