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If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
Tamora Pierce
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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.
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Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for.
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I believe in deeds, not words.
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Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.
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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man.
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You're more trouble than you're worth. I'm a girl. That's my job.
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I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.
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Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle
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Don't let him upset you, Niko told the four softly. He's old and he's frightened. You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of us, Briar pointed out. Niko glared at him. Thank you so much, he retorted waspishly.
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