I find getting the first draft down to be the biggest challenge. Every word, every punctuation mark, every plot point is a decision. It's much more fun to play with something that already exists.


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Because I love you.'

There. I said it. I can't believe I actually said it. People cast a...
CYNTHIA HAND
Sam: "I always thought you were the most beautiful of all the Nephilim."
Meg: "That's ironic be...
CYNTHIA HAND
What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asked me that night when he dropped me off fro...
CYNTHIA HAND
So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
CYNTHIA HAND
I was never conscious of any distractions other than hearing an incredible Goffin and King lyric and...
CYNTHIA WEIL
I said people nowadays are doing some crazy stuff and that's why I teach you to not talk to stranger...
CYNTHIA WILLIAMS
Both of us have a lot of experience in our fields, and our work styles are very complementary. I'm a...
CYNTHIA DEROSIER
I think we'd be hard-pressed to find many people with the generosity of Curt Gowdy. He did whatever ...
CYNTHIA PRICE
If you find out what their intentions are, you may be able to prevent them from causing a pregnancy.
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD
I feel like we wrote a road map or a handbook to help them navigate this particularly challenging ti...
CYNTHIA GRAUBART
Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the s...
CYNTHIA OZICK
We'd surf together, then go straight to the coffee shop and have our meetings. It's amazing how much...
CYNTHIA DEROSIER
We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
CYNTHIA WEIL
They would have not suspended the child without doing an investigation.
CYNTHIA MCNALLY
The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
This event was really set up for the writing students at Pitt. The past winners are conducting stude...
CYNTHIA MILLER
Here in the scripture is a woman who is downright no good, ... That's what people called her. She's ...
CYNTHIA PRATT
Bishop Smith is trying to force his theology on to these six churches.
CYNTHIA BRUST
In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to fr...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
Two years ago I found out about Tate Publishing. Actually, I called them about my children's stories...
CYNTHIA VELENO
None of the tobacco prevention programs designed by tobacco companies have been effective at prevent...
CYNTHIA HALLETT
The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military techn...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
So you're still in love with my brother."

-Wendy Avery
CYNTHIA HAND
How did you do that?”
I shrug. “I click my heels three times and say, ‘There’s no plac...
CYNTHIA HAND
It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
CYNTHIA HAND
U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens ...
CYNTHIA MORGAN
I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f...
CYNTHIA VOIGT
It's never been today before.
CYNTHIA VOIGT
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people li...
CYNTHIA PAYNE
In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
CYNTHIA KENYON
Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are ...
CYNTHIA KENYON
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th...
CYNTHIA KENYON
One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as su...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY
We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY
If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't thin...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY
I am following two great directors.
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY
It sounds like a very high squeak.
CYNTHIA PERRINE
The girlfriend and boyfriend were arrested for corruption and defeating the ends of justice.
CYNTHIA KLEINHANS
We found the bat, using its sonar 'beam,' looks ahead of where it flies, and that there is a relatio...
CYNTHIA MOSS
Caffeine might make you feel energized.
CYNTHIA SASS
Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you als...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY
I think this is a chance for a whole new beginning for the board.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
Basically the plan is to purchase land for resource protection, but also make it available for publi...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
It's safe to say that I'm against what they believe in.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
All the parties have come together.
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
and either they are not replaced or they are kept inside the bassinet and, in some cases, actually t...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
It's possible that the university hoped some interloper or somebody they had no control over came an...
CYNTHIA JOHNSON
Consumers can find out if there are any trans fats in an item by reading the ingredients. If shorten...
CYNTHIA SASS
If the words 'shortening,' 'partially hydrogenated vegetable oil' or 'hydrogenated vegetable oil' ar...
CYNTHIA SASS