I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can … - Laurie Foos

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Laurie Foos

I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.

Line, Lines, Premise, Want, World

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I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

Live Life, Mind, Mixtures, Mundane, Say, Way

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.

Interesting, Men, Subject, Subjects, Themes, Writing

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running.

Accomplish, Amazing, Know, Knows, Running

As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled out of that unconscious space that is so necessary in the beginning of the drafting process.

Discovering, Space, Stories, Story, Trouble

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Close, Ends, Life, Novel, Writing

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Albert Schweitzer

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

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Sitting Bull

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

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Alan Moore

Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.

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Buddy Rich

Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity.

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Kenneth Wuest

The believer does not use God's power; God's power uses him.

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