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Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.
Sabina Murray
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
C. S. Forester
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.
Mac DeMarco
After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
Calvin Coolidge
I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
Karen Robards
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
M. J. Rose
When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
Victor LaValle
Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri
My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Samuel Johnson
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
John Updike
The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.
Brandon Mull
If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.
Donna Brazile
Monstress is an exhilarating rollercoaster of a book. Deeply funny, heartbreaking, hopeful, philosophical, bawdy, and wise, Lysley Tenorio’s stories, written from the underbelly of the American Dream, present one brilliant portrait after another.
Sabina Murray
