I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
BARBARA MERTZLoving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
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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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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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…Nefret said with a gusty sigh, ‘Well, that’s done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite form of amusement here and this looks like being a loud one.
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Cats always made up to the people who hated them the most. Depending on how you chose to look at it, it was a touching manifestation of trust, or a malicious pleasure in human discomfort.
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I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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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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He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, “I love you, Mother.” He took my hand and kissed it, and folded my fingers round the stem of the rose. He had stripped it of its thorns.
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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.
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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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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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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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