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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
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Egyptologist
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Canton
Illinois
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Louise Mertz
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If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson
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It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.
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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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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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Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.
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..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at him whenever anything happens. Like all men, he clings to his illusions.
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love has a very dulling effect on the brain
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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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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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Children, I feel, are as much entitled to privacy as human beings.
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Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.
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stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
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A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.
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Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments.
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Superstition has its practical uses.
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The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.
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Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.
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