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Then Octavia drops to her knees, rubs the hem of a skirt against her cheek, and burst into tears. "It's been so long," she gasps, "since I've seen anything pretty. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#gale #hunger-games #katniss #octavia #peeta

Katniss, got that spile?" Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#finnick-odair #suzanne-collions #the-hunger-games #trilogy #katniss

Should I just bite you, and end it all?", he whispered. "I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#sookie-stackhouse

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#kill #like #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #rose-hathaway

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand. ↗

— Donald Windham

#understand #writing #writing-advice #writing-advice

Victory does not come to cowards;it comes to the brave ones. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #chiyson #jaa #jaachynma #success

But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. You look at the ceiling, and over at the clock, yawn, and stare at the paper again. Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind -- a scene, a locale, a character, whatever -- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#file #focus #how-to-write #imagine #quiet

I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't have time to read." This is like a guy starting up Mount Everest saying that he didn't have time to buy any rope or pitons. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #writers-on-writing

God is indeed able to make you what He wants you to be. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#book-lover #chiyson #greater-glory #jaachynma #quotes

It doesn't matter how wealthy you may be in material things, what matters is do you know what to do with those wealth? ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #improvement #jaachynma #self-help-intellectual #success