Maggie Stiefvater Quotes
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
Quotes to Explore
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Movies have been my way to get out of my backyard. I'm trying to let people know that movies change people's lives.
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I almost never listen to radio or watch political talk shows, especially if I happen to be on them.
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In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
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Growing up in Seattle, I was always that kid who didn't subscribe to what everyone else was wearing.
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Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
