Tamora Pierce quotes - page 5

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside. (Tamora Pierce)
Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention. View quote
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You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it. View quote
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I believe in deeds, not words. View quote
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I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of people in the world, the destroyers and the builders. I want to build, not destroy. You need to ask yourself who you're going to be. View quote
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Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold. View quote
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Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I have better things to do with my magic than fixing my vision when ordinary glass will do. View quote
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George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, "And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you? View quote
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it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove. View quote
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A bully fights people littler and weaker than he is because he thinks it's fun. View quote
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I want to marry her, when I grow up to be a man. (Tamora Pierce)
If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises. View quote
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I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades. View quote
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What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family. View quote
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Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends. View quote
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am. View quote
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I love meeting fans. They're always fun, they always have good things to say, smart questions to ask, and plenty of ideas for me to explore in the future. View quote
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I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages. View quote
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of. View quote
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently? View quote
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. (Tamora Pierce)
You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible. View quote
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy. View quote
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It's harder to heal than it is to kill. View quote
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Sweetheart, never listen to what my enemies say. They're very confused people. I know they are because I've spent years making them that way. View quote
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