Warrior Cats Mapleshade Quotes

#1. One exercise I always do when I'm getting to know a character is ask her to tell me her secrets. Sit down with a pen and paper, and start with, 'I never told anybody ... ' and go from there, writing in the voice of your character.

Jennifer McMahon

#2. You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.

Jennifer Echols

#3. I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Chuck Klosterman

#4. Anger flashed in Hudson's eyes. He grabbed my upper arms and yanked me toward him until my face was only inches from his. "Leaving you that morning was the hardest fucking thing I've done in a long time," he hissed. "Don't treat it lightly.

Laurelin Paige

#5. Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Linn Ullmann

#6. I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

Lillian Hellman

#7. I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

Mary Balogh

#8. Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.

William Kent Krueger

#9. Engaging in an authentic, meaningful conversation with consumers will be the key to marketing success and growth, even if that means acknowledging negative feedback; transparency is paramount.

Ron Blake

#10. You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

Dave Gahan

#11. To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

Teresa Of Avila

#12. I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

Padgett Powell

#13. Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

Ed Rendell

#14. No one wants to get hurt."
" Well, maybe not, but sometime's it's worth it.

Robyn Schneider