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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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Barbara Mertz
Age: 85 †
Born: 1927
Born: September 29
Died: 2013
Died: August 8
Archaeologist
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Egyptologist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.
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Loving 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.
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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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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.
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The approval of a cat cannot but flatter the recipient.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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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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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a 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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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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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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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That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.
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I knew the answer, and--of course--so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.
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