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I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland. — Rose Tremain

A harmonica is easy to carry. Take it out of your hip pocket, knock it against your palm to shake out the dirt and pocket fuzz and bits of tobacco. Now it's ready. You can do anything with a harmonica: thin reedy single tone, or chords or melody with rhythm chords. You can mold the music with curved hands, making it wail and cry like bagpipes, making it full and rounds like an organ, making it as sharp and bitter as the reed pipes of the hills. And you can play it and put it back in your pocket. It is always with you, always in your pocket. And as you play, you learn new tricks, to pinch the tone with your lips, and no one teaches you. You feel around - sometimes in the tent door after supper when the women are washing up. Your foot taps gently on the ground. Your foot taps gently on the ground. Your eyebrows rise and fall in rhythm. And if you lose it or break it, why, it's no great loss. You can buy another for a quarter. — John Steinbeck

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does. — J.D. Salinger

I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth."
"How can you be sure?"
"Because she'd do the same for you. — Rick Riordan

The more light you have in an image, the less drama you get. The details start taking over; the mystery is all gone. — Jay Maisel

They can do all because they think they can. — Virgil

If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future. — Carl Eckart

The rule of the giant's wife, a most worthy woman, whose only fault was that she was to ready to trust boys. — E. Nesbit

A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation. — Jane Austen

I was getting a lot of really nasty feedback about my weight during 'Fargo,' which is unfortunate because I am statistically a completely average-size woman. — Allison Tolman

But my voice is too soft. The wind picks up my words and swallows them whole. — Hafsah Faizal

Affirmation without discipline is like enthusiasm without direction. — Lisa A. Mininni

One may hide cruel. One may even hide a certain amount of madness. One can never hide stupidity. — Melissa Jensen

Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination. — Tycho Brahe