Kristine Kathryn Rusch Quotes
The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.
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I have to work in England, but here in America you don't have to work. You can sort of enter the profession of being.
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By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.
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Difficulty is our most reliable narrative engine.
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I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.
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The only way to build a fan base is to have a lot of material out there for readers to find. You can't manufacture a fan base. You create it, one story at a time.
