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It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has).

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Wendelin Van Draanen
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: January 6
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I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
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As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.
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So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was the man, the envy of every other guy in our school. Buddy, I was miserable. -Bryce Loski
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But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on
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I don’t think you’re aloud to be homeschooled if you don’t have a home.
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I'd scale that monster sycamore if I could. Right to the top. And I'd yell her name across the rooftops for the whole world to hear. -Bryce
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Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
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To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind, she said,it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.
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Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
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All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.
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There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.
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What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.
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