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I love writing picture books and story books because of the exciting, visual life that artists and illustrators give to them. And most of all, I love writing novels because of the inner, emotional journeys that they take me on. Hopefully, the reader comes with me! Berlie Doherty
Life Love Me Writing Picture Books Visual Hopefully Give Emotional Take Exciting Picture Books Journeys Most Reader Because Artists Story Story Books Them Novels Inner
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets. Bernard Cornwell
You Looking Looking Back Back Mad Winning No Regrets Take Never Course Idiotic Hand Irresponsible Forlorn Regrets Then Chances
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. Bernard Cornwell
Writing Beginning Think Risk Writers Very Pompous Useful Groups Career
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive. Bernard Cornwell
Time Book Writing Mind Research Others One Book Though More Written Like Fairly Sort Stick Doing Being While Productive
So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. Bernard Cornwell
Brazil Other Other Countries Books Best-Seller Countries Like Greater Audience Making Least Stopped Lists Places Japan Them Appeal Dozen British
I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face. Bernard Cornwell
Internet Face Face-To-Face Rather Mentor Mentoring Most Than Goes Anyone Wants Happily Who
So far it's 43 books in 25 years. Bernard Cornwell
Books Years Far
Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations. Bernard Cornwell
Travel Book Sometimes Too Much Research Think Too Take Tours Provide Lot Much Vacations
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. Bernard Malamud
Pencil Idea Quickly Get Moving
Life is a tragedy full of joy. Bernard Malamud
Life Joy Life Is A Tragedy Full
I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought. Bernard Malamud
Work Love Language Afterthought Flowers
One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live. Bertha von Suttner
Happiness Peace Rights Live Individual Developed Truths Eternal Created Right
The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity. Bertha von Suttner
Humanity Destruction Mind Society Constantly Drives Almost Instinct Annihilation Self-Preservation Subconsciously Methods Refined Human Against Acting Human Mind Rebelling Human Society
Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means. Bertha von Suttner
Sometimes Changes Slowly Brought About Indirect Nobel Social Social Changes Means Believed
I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story. Bertha von Suttner
Service Peace Book Better Thought Could Write League Ideas Most How Effectively Than Trying Wanted Form Story Which Should
When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. Beryl Bainbridge
You Picture Statue Telly Could Had Make Got Aerial Discovered Get Stood Children Stand
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful. Betty Smith
People Wonderful Thought Embedded About Horse Parlor Liked Wrote Fake Clock Brass Who
Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way. Beverly Lewis
Love Faith Family Cooking Witness Opportunity Live Way Sewing Out Seeing Baking Well Around Firsthand Tradition Domestic Up Arts Them Farmland Unique Growing Growing Up Amish Enjoyed
If you're a good Amish girl, you're courting, you have three or four different beaus, and you go out and stay out all night. That's just their tradition. They date under the covering of night. No one knows who they're dating or seeing until two weeks before they're going to be married. It's how they've done it for 300 years. Beverly Lewis
Good You Girl Three Before Out All Night Married Stay Seeing Date Dating Weeks No-One Until Knows Courting How Tradition Go Years Covering Done Going Just Different Who Amish Four Night Two Two Weeks
My mother's people are Old Order Mennonite - horse and buggy Mennonite, very close cousins to the Amish. I grew up in Lancaster County and lived near Amish farm land. Beverly Lewis
People Mother Old Farm Horse County Cousins Up Very Close Order Grew Lancaster Land Lived Amish Near
I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am. Beverly Lewis
Writer Am Just Who
I consider myself a writer who writes about American expatriates. And if I have any overt cause as a writer besides writing the best prose I can, it's to try to make Americans have a more visceral feeling about how America impacts everybody in the world. Bob Shacochis
Best Myself Writing World Cause Try Feeling Everybody Consider Visceral Besides Impacts About More Writer Writes Prose Make How America American Any Who
When you meet powerful men or just read about them in the newspapers, you see that they don't have a sense of boundaries. Bob Shacochis
You Men Sense Meet See About Powerful Boundaries Read Just Them Newspapers
You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them. Bob Shacochis
Best You Humanity Crises Characters Forefront Context Want Decide Place Which Placed Them Then Bring
A whole bunch of agents and editors looked at my stories, and they all said, in effect, 'You're a pretty good writer and you should probably get these published; when you grow up and write a novel, get in touch.' Bob Shacochis
Good You Pretty Pretty Good Touch Write Writer Good Writer Looked Said Editors Effect Up Bunch Get Stories Agents Should Whole Novel Grow Grow Up Published
The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing. Bob Shacochis
Writing World Smart Resonate Will First Enough Archetypes Head Come Forces Around Integration Wandering Experiences Stories Bigger Themes Planet Sweeping Lucid Things
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