Top 36 Libbie Quotes
#2. Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.
Libbie Hickman
#3. Because it is my destiny, Zabdas! Because I've always known the gods made me for something more -- more than just a wife, just a mother, just a woman. They made me for power!
Libbie Hawker
#4. Nafsha is so concerned with my virginity. I am beginning to think she would wed me herself. Alas, the only tool she might use to make me a woman is her tongue -- and it is far too sharp for me to allow it beneath my skirts.
Libbie Hawker
#5. Strength, solidarity, and loyalty - those were the traits of a proper woman. Dovey
Libbie Hawker
#6. Marriage is a sleepy guard to which one confides one's dearest treasure, love.
Libbie Block
#7. When the audience understands that the main character has a very serious need to change his own heart and mind, the hook is set, and the audience is irrevocably invested.
Libbie Hawker
#8. Love in its early stages rarely maintains a level, it always seems to be growing or diminishing.
Libbie Block
#9. Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.
Adam Smith
#10. Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.
Libbie Hawker
#11. Think carefully before you issue me a command, Zenobia. For I will do what you tell me, even if I'm the worst possible man for the job.
Libbie Hawker
#12. Marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.
Libbie Block
#13. As soon as you start focusing on the negative you're dead.
Libbie Hickman
#16. The whole aim of comparative anatomy is to discover what structures are homologous.
Libbie Hyman
#17. Her voice is still pitched high, thanks to her youth, but it has a certain incipient darkness to it, a low richness that will mature in the coming years to the smoky tones of a priestess or a queen -- a woman of great natural power.
Libbie Hawker
#18. Still, if I don't believe in the possibility, I might go mad from fear.
Libbie Hawker
#19. In the dull, persistent beat of her heart, she hears the rhythm of hope. It is faint and thin as a thread, but it is there.
Libbie Hawker
#20. The Story Core Every compelling story has the following five elements: 1) A character 2) The character wants something 3) But something prevents him from getting what he wants easily 4) So he struggles against that force 5) And either succeeds or fails
Libbie Hawker
#21. We don't yet know the state of the naturals. Are they friends or foes? None of us can say. We ought to anchor in the bay, as near as we might come to the shore, and bide our time. The naturals will show themselves, soon or late. They know we are here already, or else I'm a virgin girl.
Libbie Hawker
#23. A tight pace has nothing to do with explosions or car chases. It has everything to do with creating a compulsion to keep on reading, even when your reader has other things she really ought to be doing.
Libbie Hawker
#26. I can hear some of you groaning as you read this section. "Great," you're saying. "I have to put a theme in my book? Themes are only for that 'high literature' stuff that gets taught in universities, not for my nice, entertaining genre fiction.
Libbie Hawker
#27. Things like Do Not Steal were, I think, hammered into boys' heads a good deal harder in those days than they are now. Still, we can never be certain.
C.S. Lewis
#28. The character's flaw will shape every other aspect of your book. The flaw is the engine that drives your entire book, from hooking your reader's interest to propelling the plot to its climax - so choose your flaw with care, and make it count.
Libbie Hawker
#29. The more you doubt your talent and strive to improve, the better the writer.
Stephanie Ayers
#30. You put a movie star or a bunch of movie stars in a movie, it doesn't mean people are gonna go see it. It's been proven time and time again.
John Slattery
#31. She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?
Libbie Hawker
#33. To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.
Libbie Block
#34. You can't get old without living.
Jim Brown
#35. She threw herself across her bed, weeping into a pillow. She knew just what she wanted -- the desire was a fierce ache inside her. But fiercer still was the knowledge that it was beyond the reach of a female.
Libbie Hawker
#36. The ants are my friends- they're blowing in the wind
Lorrie Moore
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