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You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more.

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Holly Black
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
New Jersey
United States
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You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.
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Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.
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His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.
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Mutually assured destruction.
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She wears trouble like a crown. If she ever falls in love, she’ll fall like a comet, burning the sky as she goes.
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It's not that I don't know that it's a bad idea. It's that, lately, bad ideas have a particular hold over me.
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The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
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I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.
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He looks like the good boy he's never been.
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Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.
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No, said Luis, You can't date the Lord of the Night Court. Well, I'm not, he dumped me. You can't get dumped by the lord of the night court. Oh, yes, you can. You so completely can.
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Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we expect not to tell the truth. If we think of ourselves as honest, we try harder.
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Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.
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You don't have to protect these people, Cassel. I am these people.
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A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
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If I'm not a murderer, asked Corny, how come I keep killing people?
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We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.
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Greg stands up, wiping his mouth. I saw your mother's trial in the paper, Sharpe. I know you're just like her. If I was, I would make you beg to blow me, I sneer.
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You're a pretty cool customer, huh? says Agent Hunt. I hide my inner pain under my stoic visage. Agent Hunt looks like he would like to put his fist through my stoic visage.
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