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Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

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David Eddings
Age: 77 †
Born: 1931
Born: July 7
Died: 2009
Died: June 2
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Spokane
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David Carroll Eddings
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As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others. -Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor.
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Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk. It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?
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I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry. That might explain a lot, Beldin noted blandly. We should have fed you more often when you were younger.
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When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.
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Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion
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Now what?” Urgit warily asked his bride-to-be. “Am I disturbing your Majesty?” Prala asked. “…You always disturb me, my beloved,” he answered her question, spreading his arms extravagantly.
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It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?
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Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.
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I'm truly amazed at you, Garion, Polgara said. I didn't think you had the faintest idea of how to speak a civilized language. Thank you, he said, I think.
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Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
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I'm a storyteller, not a prophet. I'm just interested in a good story.
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Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
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This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
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Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.
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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
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Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? -Eriond
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If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.
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You're a cynic, Urgit accused. Silk shook his head. No, Your Majesty. I'm a realist.
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Consistency is the defense of a small mind
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