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I don't think I make much of a distinction between the 'real' and the 'fantastic.' They both seem to be threads in the same cloth as far as I'm concerned.

- Alice Hoffman Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.

- Rudolf Hiferding Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

- Margaret Haddix Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

- Margaret Haddix Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.

- David Guterson Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

- William Gurnall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

- William Gurnall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

- William Gurnall Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

- Robert Fitzgerald Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

- Kate DiCamillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

- Kate DiCamillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

- Kate DiCamillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I hate to cook and love to eat.

- Kate DiCamillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I grew up before there were strict leash laws.

- Beverly Cleary Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

- Peter Benchley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.

- Gabrielle Roy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

- Natalie Barney Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We have to try and not let the little things go by. It's the little things that win games. It's the little things that often get overlooked that can add two or three more wins.

- Kenny Harrison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

- Mary Waldrip Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

- Gabrielle Roy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Neither does Greg Patent, author of Baking in America ... If you want cakey, eat chocolate cake. Brownies should be dense and moist and fudgy.

- Houghton Mifflin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

- Stewart Brand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.

- Phil Crosby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes