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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.

Barbara Mertz

A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
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Asking Giving Help Men
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
The trouble with unknown enemies is that they are so difficult to identify.
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Difficult Enemy Trouble
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only
I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!
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Cold Girl Manipulation
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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Character Knowing Writing
Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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Advice Fire Trouser
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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Christian Half Lasts
Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Promise Resurrection Spring
Many persons lead lives of crushing boredom.
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Boredom Crush Persons
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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Hitting People Tired
Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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Brain Dulling Effects Love
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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Book Three Way
I don’t think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn’t someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven’t, I claim the credit myself.)
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Credit Men Thinking
The combination of physical strength and moral sincerity combined with tenderness of heart is exactly what is wanted in a husband.–Ameila Peabody
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Heart Husband Moral

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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