Top 35 John Searles Quotes
#1. Why do the same people who believe in those deities doubt the existence of darker spirits? I ask all of you, how can a person believe in the light but not the dark?
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#2. There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.
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#3. At the age of 70-something, Helen Gurley Brown was still a woman who knew how to get men to look at her.
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#4. My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
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#5. No one in my family had ever even gone to college.
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#6. My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
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#7. When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.
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#8. My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'
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#9. I always joke deep down I'm really a teenage girl on the inside.
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#10. My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
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#11. Each of us is born into this life with a light inside us... What's most important is to never let that light go out, because when you do, it means you've lost yourself to darkness. It means you've lost hope. And hope is what makes this world a beautiful place.
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#12. I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.
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#14. I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
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#15. I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.
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#16. I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.
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#17. People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.
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#18. A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'
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#19. That's what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.
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#20. You know what can make a person possessed, Sylvie? It's not Satan or Lucifer or any of that nonsense. Do you know what it is? . . . Love and hate. Greed. Revenge. Pride. Those things...
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#21. I learned to love the little things about him, because of all the big things I could not love. No one could. It would be wrong to.
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#23. I love being able to be a writer. That's what I moved to New York to be.
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#24. All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.
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#25. I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.
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#26. What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
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#27. Gone are the days when a publisher could take out an ad, count on a few reviews, and have an author do a couple of signings. Nowadays, readers want to feel a connection with an author.
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#28. I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don't believe. But mostly - mostly, mostly - I do.
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#29. Buying an apartment in New York was beyond my wildest dreams. I had to scrape together every cent to buy it. And I'm so happy I did.
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#30. I usually don't write at night, but there are times where I wake up at 3 in the morning and write all night.
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#32. Just because people are related doesn't always make the difference it should.
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#33. Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me.
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#34. Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.
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#35. I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.
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