Foregrounded Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it. — Madeleine L'Engle

Jace stood up, knocking his chair back violently. You are not taking Clary to the Seelie Court without me and THAT is FINAL. — Cassandra Clare

I'm a writer first and an editor second ... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. — Lynn Abbey

Disinformation is most effective in a very narrow context. — Frank Snepp

Quillonians were a reclusive race, proud, prone to drama, and violent when cornered. A couple of them had stayed at my parents' inn, and as long as everything went their way, they were perfectly cordial, but the moment any small problem appeared, they would start putting exclamation marks at the end of all their sentences. My mother didn't like dealing with them. She was very practical. If you brought a problem to her, she'd take it apart and figure out how best to resolve it. From what I remembered, Quillonians didn't always want their problems resolved. They wanted a chance to shake their clawed fists at the sky, invoke their gods, and act as if the world was ending. — Ilona Andrews

I'm not a racist. It's really case by case; it's not ethnicity specific. It's just the way I react to things that are different. I think that's normal. Everyone's nervous when they're confronted with things that they don't understand or are different. That's a normal human reaction. It doesn't become racist 'til you say things like, 'Oh, there's a lot of them.' — Marc Maron

You gotta love an attentive vampire

--Kylie — C.C. Hunter

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

We can only bear the fruit of patience when we have something to be patient about. — Melissa B. Kruger

I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better. — Peter S. Beagle

People think being Elvira is a lot of fun - and it is - but I was doing a lot more bizarre stuff before then, just being a dancer and a showgirl and traveling around Italy in a band and working for Playboy Club, and later being a model and meeting a million and one people and being kind of a groupie ... It's all been really interesting. — Cassandra Peterson