Quotes About Slippered

#1. If you can master the opening, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

Darynda Jones

#2. When I was 41, I found a lump the size of a grape in my right breast. I ended up bald, sick and exhausted from surgeries, chemo and radiation treatments. Ah, but I got to live.

Regina Brett

#3. I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my self-knowledge. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider.

Francine Prose

#4. We don't read to observe the character from a distance. We read to become the character and experience the conflicts and rewards they are experiencing.

Darynda Jones

#5. The key to high concept is that fresh twist. Make it a big one. Wow your reader. Force her to gasp when she comes to that part in your story.

Darynda Jones

#6. It's like when you want to make a house ... the technique is very important.

Cecilia Bartoli

#7. Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

Robert Byrd

#8. While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.

Darynda Jones

#9. And then I was simply running, flying along the hallways of the palace on glass-slippered feet, not knowing, not caring where I was going. The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.

Cameron Dokey

#10. The bookcase was filled with computer games, history books, and sci-fi novels in about equal proportions. Odd reading choices, maybe, but I just thought of it as past and future history.

Mike Mullin