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Nora Roberts quote: "I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get..."

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

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All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer? one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going? one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world. L. M. Montgomery
William Boetcker quote: "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift."
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. William Boetcker
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck. Daisy Donovan
Jerry B. Jenkins quote: "The Christian market has less competition and lower standards."
The Christian market has less competition and lower standards. Jerry B. Jenkins
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. George Washington
Judith Light quote: "You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone..."
You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you. Judith Light
Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south? North and South Korea, North and South Vietnam, Northern and Southern Ireland, Yankees and Rebels, uptown and downtown. Somebody please tell me why that is? Maybe southerners get too much sun, like Mr. Sock over there, frying his threads, and northerners don't get enough (although I hardly think northern Israel a cool spot in the shade), but southern... Tom Robbins
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I want it real. I want to know that there is someone, somewhere, who wants it, too. Or else what is the use of seeing it, and working, and burning oneself for an impossible vision? A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry Ayn Rand
Fulton J. Sheen quote: "Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from..."
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. Fulton J. Sheen
The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt. Michael Chabon
I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in order to live better than my parents. Anthony Bourdain
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients. Mario Batali
Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. Edward Norton
Melissa Rosenberg quote: "With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and..."
With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script. Melissa Rosenberg