Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
BARBARA MERTZIn the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal – or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.)
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To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
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Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
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The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything – including their own sins.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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