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Barbara Mertz

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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Cat Treats Way
Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Gentleman Men Pay
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
BARBARA MERTZ

Favors Lap Slugs
Money was the manure of politics.
BARBARA MERTZ

Manure Money Politics
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
BARBARA MERTZ

Funny Want Women
Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn’t planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I’m not recommending it as a way to write. It’s very sloppy, but it works for me.
BARBARA MERTZ

Character Knowing Writing
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Exaggeration Form Humor
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.
BARBARA MERTZ

Giving Men People
His masculinity was only too apparent
BARBARA MERTZ

Apparent Masculinity Only
It’s not unsporting to thrash a cowardly cad,’ said Simmons. ‘Everyone knows you don’t fight like a gentleman.’ ‘That might be called an oxymoron,’ Ramses said. ‘Oh–sorry. Bad form to use long words. Look it up when you get home.’ The poor devil didn’t know how to fight, like a gentleman or otherwise.
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Fighting Home Sorry
Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Children Feel Privacy
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
BARBARA MERTZ

Half History Race
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Thinking Writing

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

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