Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses’s lap and began to purr. ‘The creature oozes like a furry slug,’ said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
BARBARA MERTZWriting is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.
More Barbara Mertz Quotes
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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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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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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long time ago, and Holy Writ, though no doubt divinely inspired, is a trifle careless about details. God is not a historian).
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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His masculinity was only too apparent
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Love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
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The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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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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It was hate at first sight, clean, pure and strong as grain alcohol.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
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Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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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 one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one’s footing.
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