Top 35 Bruce Coville Quotes
#1. Protective coloration ... you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.
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#2. I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
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#3. I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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#4. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
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#5. Ideas are all around you - everything gives you ideas. But the real source is the part of your brain that dreams.
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#6. Chains," said the Tinker, coming up behind her. "They bind us, whether we want them to or not. But a heart without chains would have nothing to hold it, might simply blow away.
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#7. When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
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#8. I like fixing things," he said as he worked. "The world is always breaking, here and there, this way and that. Fix a bit of it, and I feel like I'm helping.
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#9. How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?
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#11. Still, the painful death of that unicorn had been satisfying to watch
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#12. Family isn't blood," she said bitterly, continuing to back away. "Family is who loves you, who takes care of you.
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#13. Travel safe, travel well. May those who have gone before be always with you.
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#14. I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
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#15. Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
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#16. Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.
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#17. I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.
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#18. In terms of age, I think I've covered about as wide a range as is possible, having written everything from picture books to early chapter books to middle grade novels to YA to one adult novel - and having been editor and lead writer for a magazine for retired people!
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#19. The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
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#20. Gadfangled girl things, always robbed me of my common sense.
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#21. When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.
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#22. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all ... Never was a chain that couldn't be broken. Sometimes its even a good idea.
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#23. The first draft of a story is the writer's clay.
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#24. I know what I'm going to write for the next three years. It's frustrating, because if I get a good new idea, I have to put it aside.
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#25. Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV?
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#27. My writing works best when I remember that bookish child who adored reading and gear the work toward him.
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#28. You should make someone a wonderful husband."
Even the tips of Jamie's ears were crimson now. But instead of retreating, he clenched his jaw and looked directly into her eyes.
"I suppose I would," he said. "Are you interested?
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#29. Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
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#30. I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.
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#31. Odds of a worm migration coming this way - about a billion to one. Odds of Elspeth improving her behavior without help - about the same. Sleep well, young friends.
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#32. Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.
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#33. All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.
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#34. Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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#35. Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
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