- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Quotes
Quotes that speak straight to you.
This collection gathers quotes framed around 'you' - from candid reflections on body image pressures passed down in families to observations about how humor can mask real vulnerability. Many touch on how what you know about yourself differs from how others perceive you.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Reason
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I wrote 'You Suck' was that I so enjoyed spending time with Tommy and Jody.
- Diction
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the scientists who are working on solving the problem of curing paralysis say that it won't do you any good if you don't keep your body in shape.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're telling stories, you are actually trying to illuminate some portion of the truth in an artful way. The story may immediately seem to be a lie, but it's like an impressionistic painting - you see the light and the color better than you would with a photo-realistic piece.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are good with children. Others are not. It is a gift. You either have it, or you don't. My father didn't.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
War and love - they have much in common. You can theorize about them, but until you have experienced them, you cannot know them, for the emotions that they engender are as complicated and as conflicting, as noble and as ignoble, as any that life has to offer.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020