Kit Reed Quotes

#1. Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about.

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#2. I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

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#3. My novel is about the history of the world, told from the point of view of a column of stone.
(from "Wherein We Enter the Museum")

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#4. I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

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#5. I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep us in and intruders out, and in college I spent some time at the Naval Academy, where everything was run by the numbers.

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#6. Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

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#7. I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

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#8. I dream in color; it's always a movie and sometimes I'm in it, as myself.

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#9. Did you ever get exactly what you want and find out it's not what you wanted at all?

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