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Category: Quotables

  • How to Look Smarter – Maybe

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    Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. – Proverbs 17:28 Sometimes the stupidest things come out of my mouth. Clearly, there are times when it would’ve been better for me to keep my mouth shut. But, being an introvert, I usually have the opposite problem.…

  • The Difference Between a Good Novel and a Bad One – G.K. Chesterton

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    A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. – G.K. Chesterton If this is true – be careful what you write! You might be revealing more about yourself than you thought.

  • How To Describe Betrayal

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    “Maybe you can help me pull the knife out of my back. I can’t quite reach it.” – Lily Margolis in Lillies in Moonlight, by Allison Pittman  A very subtle way for Lily Margolis to announce her betrayal, isn’t it? I love how this quote characterizes her as hurt, quick-witted and a little over-dramatic, all…

  • A Dilemma – A Thought From Betsy Ray (Quotables)

    A Dilemma – A Thought From Betsy Ray (Quotables)

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    I decided my ‘Quotables‘ posts will take over for my fiction posts for a little while – I left off posting ‘Quotables’ a few months back because of school pressures, but they’re back now! Fiction will return when I have something new written to post. 🙂 Today is a quote from Betsy Ray, the protagonist…

  • A Proverb From the Parliament

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    Where there is no vision, the people perish. – Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)  This quote happens to be inscribed on the Parliament Buildings of Canada, and it struck me the other day – it’s a pretty fitting quote for a government. A huge part of the apathy with politics is that people don’t believe politicians have…

  • Those Pesky Phoenicians! – A Thought From Herodotus

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    According to the learned Persians, it was the Phoenicians who caused the conflict. – Herodotus, The Histories That is the beginning of Herodotus’ explanation for the war between the Greeks and the Persians (you know, the war that movie 300 was sort of, supposedly, set during). Pretty typical how the blame gets passed on to…

  • An Opening to Intrigue You

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    In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. – Howl’s Moving Castle (yes, again)  I love this opening because it establishes so clearly that this novel is going to poke fun at fairy-tales. The…

  • That’s Not Shakespeare! Or Maybe It Is

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    “Alas, poor Yorick!” – Howl, from Howl’s Moving Castle, quoting Shakespeare When I first read Howl’s Moving Castle, I didn’t realize this was a quote from Shakespeare until I read Hamlet a year later. Funny how we tend to attribute things to the last person that we remember said them, whether or not they actually…

  • Concerning Hobbits

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    In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. – The Hobbit  That has to be the most famous line ever scrawled on the back of a student’s exam paper. It’s such a good example of an intriguing opening line for a novel – I remember wondering just what a hobbit was, and why…

  • Poor Starving Writers – A Thought from Robert Bloch

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    So I had this problem – work or starve. So I thought I’d combine the two and decided to become a writer. – Robert Bloch I’ve never read any of Robert Bloch’s work (apparently he wrote Psycho), but this quote sums up why I’ve never really dared to commit to writing for a living. I…