P.N. Elrod Quotes

#1. Always move forward, laddie. We're all in God's hands and that's a safe enough place as any in this world.

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#2. Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.

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#3. His eyes were the same color as steel and not nearly as soft.

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#4. Beautifully drawn, solid, compelling characters against a background so real and scary I left the lights on all night. It was great!

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#5. Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

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#6. Woodwake wants you in her office. What did you do?" "I invaded Egypt and they're very annoyed about it." "Who is? Them upstairs or the Egyptians?" "Both.

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#7. As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.

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#8. Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

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#9. I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.

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#10. Do you really think anyone needs some kind of notarized statement saying
'Dear Saint Peter, here's another stiff, pass him through the gates, signed, Father McGonnigill.' ... 'PS: He once had a hot dog on a Friday, but don't hold that against him.'

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#11. I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one!

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#12. What breath I had within simply left, as if it had other business to attend.

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