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“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.”

Men Years Said Knowing Equal Hundred Years Ago Equality Really Mean

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.”

Men Country Death Fighting Knowing Ready Thousand Hundred Horse Fellows

Book:Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

Source: Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son

“I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.”

Trying Believe Deals Knowing Progress One Thing Hundred Don't Believe Stuck Block Writer's Block Bad Word Forward Progress

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.”

People Ifs Thinking World Soul Shows Remember Moving Dies Lost Secret Knowing Ordinary Hundred Senses Endless Show Me Limitless Vastness

Author:Amy Tan

“I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.”

Children Silence Knowing Minutes Arms Hundred Red Window Twenties Glasses Tiny Odd Knees Halls Curtains Crowded Velvet Only Child

Book:Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

Source: Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

“I am asking you to marry me because I love you,” he said, “because I cannot imagine living my life without you. I want to see your face in the morning, and then at night, and a hundred times in between. I want to grow old with you, I want to laugh with you, and I want to sigh to my friends about how managing you are, all the while secretly knowing I am the luckiest man in town.” “What?” she demanded. He shrugged. “A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.”

Ifs Men Want Said Faces Night Grows Realizing Perfect Morning Laughing Knowing Imagine Love You Hundred My Friends Towns Asking Appearance Your Face Living My Life Sigh Without You Marry Me

Author:Julia Quinn

“Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.”

Years Two Lying Dies Knowing Hundred Twenties Safety Deceit Sheep Fence Cages Twenty Two Knowing The Truth

Book:Shadowfever: Fever Series

Source: Shadowfever: Fever Series

“The real power of a wolf isn't in its fearsome jaws, which can clench with fifteen hundred pounds of pressure per square inch. The real power of a wolf is having that strength, and knowing when not to use it.”

Real Use Knowing Hundred Pressure Pounds Squares Inches Fifteen Real Power

Book:Lone Wolf: A Novel

Source: Lone Wolf: A Novel