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Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #tyranny #tyrant #young-adult

Our tragedy is that we forget it might be someone else first. ↗

— Holly Black

#distopian #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction

Are we talking hell hounds and flames here?" Des asked, pacing at the end of our beds. I repeated the question and gave a heaving sigh of relief when Jameson said I had the wrong idea. "He's going to 'lead us into temptation.'" "That doesn't sound so bad," Des said with a cheeky grin. ↗

— Terri Clark

#demons #hollyweird #paranormal #romance #teen

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #paranormal-romance-series #supernatural #trust #young-adult

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #paranormal-romance #supernatural #young-adult

Writing is a struggle against silence. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#writing-process

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." (Interview with NEH chairman Bruce Cole, Humanities, July/Aug. 2002, Vol. 23/No. 4) ↗

— David McCullough

#creative-process #precision #thinking #thought #writing

Don't write about Man; write about a man. ↗

— E.B. White

#the-writing-process #writing-process

My life will be the best illustration of all my work. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#illustration #life #work #writing #writing-process

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That isn't the way people write.' I believe this as strongly now as I did then. Most of what is best in writing isn't done deliberately. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#writing-process