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Writing about yourself is addictive. I hope all you kids noticed that. If you feel like autobiography, try heroin. Lots safer and easier to control…

— John Barnes Orbital Resonance (1991)

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Papa always says there’s room for everyone, but some people certainly take theirs up without making it interesting.

Orbital Resonance (1991)

The only thing Carla has ever learned to like about dealing with power is how easy it is to embarrass people who have it.

Mother of Storms (1994)

I burst into tears. It’s the best defense ever found against well-meaning people who are telling you something stupid “for your own good.”

Orbital Resonance (1991)

Silence, like all good things, was at its best and costliest when absolutely pure, and it never paid to skimp on it.

The Lost Princess Man (2009)

How he must have been astonished to see people behaving decently when what they believed was absolute anathema to him.

A Million Open Doors (1992)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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