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But it was the dark hunger in his tone that got to her. Damn kinky vampire had actually liked the knife.
Shit. — Nalini Singh

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you. — Nina Easton

If you see the world as gloomily as I see it, the only thing to do is laugh or shoot yourself. — John Le Carre

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles? — Buster Keaton

I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality. — Will Durant

You and that amazing body of yours will be the cause of some too-appreciative witch's death. Maybe two witches." Or a dozen, her fire spirit hissed. — N.D. Jones

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes. — Dorothy Parker

Human working memory is able to hold no more than some four or five chunks of information at any given time. — Nick Bostrom

The government should spend more time on promoting tourism in Sydney. — Harry Triguboff

thing, "Typhoon and the Tor Bay" it was called, — The Paris Review

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980. — Siri Hustvedt

I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats. — Natalie Dormer

Surely joy is the condition of life. — Henry David Thoreau

The novella will be called, I think, "The Messiah of Stockholm." It takes place in Stockholm. I'd better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out. — Cynthia Ozick

If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong. — Tom Jaine

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence. — Michel De Montaigne

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review. — William Kennedy

He may be the one dressed like a fool, but it seemed the title was reserved for her. — Marissa Meyer

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The only thing is worrying about sleeping. If I have to be up early I worry about being able to get to sleep. — Martin Shaw

I'm a California boy. I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
(Paris Review Interview) — Ray Bradbury

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. — Bryant H. McGill

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing. — P.G. Wodehouse

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. — Irwin Shaw