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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

Barbara Mertz

When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
BARBARA MERTZ

Men Political Talking
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
BARBARA MERTZ

Garden Gardening Soul
Emerson,’ I said, choosing my words with care, ‘it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won’t have to carry you such a distance.
BARBARA MERTZ

Distance Home Three
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.
BARBARA MERTZ

Appearance Demand Female
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.
BARBARA MERTZ

Only Way Write Writing
To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.
BARBARA MERTZ

Arguing Thread Trying
A man asking for help ought to at least give directions.
BARBARA MERTZ

Asking Giving Help Men
No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
BARBARA MERTZ

Funny Want Women
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
BARBARA MERTZ

Cat Looks Self
I do hope you have some money. I’m getting tired of hitting people.
BARBARA MERTZ

Hitting People Tired
Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
BARBARA MERTZ

Marriage Should Views
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.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Three Way
There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
BARBARA MERTZ

Doors Mother Pain
a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
BARBARA MERTZ

Church Joy Majesty
I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don’t like to read.
BARBARA MERTZ

Book Thinking Writing
People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.
BARBARA MERTZ

Astonishment Believe People

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.

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