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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.


Maggie Stiefvater

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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Blue opened and closed her chilly fists. The top edges of her fingerless gloves were fraying; she’...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
WALKER PERCY Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE Depending on where you began the story, it was about Noah Czerny.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I...
REID SCOTT It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
BONO I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any...
COREY TAYLOR I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed...
JOHN GRISHAM If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It'll be OK. I'm ready. Blue, kiss me.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's great...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I'm not like some other writers: I have no actual urgent need or desire to add to what's wri...
TOM STOPPARD I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like ...
NATALIE PORTMAN Ostendes tuum et ostendam meus?
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When you're young, you're not afraid of what comes next. You're excited by it.
DAVE GROHL When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're no...
DAVID GUTERSON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics thi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn't all-encompassing, tha...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbi...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah crouched over Gansey's body. He said, for the last time, 'You will live because of Glendower. S...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.
KIRSTEN DUNST In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
ABBEY LEE KERSHAW In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ...
JIM VARNEY If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
MARIO ANDRETTI A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you&...
DAVID ORTIZ Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all tr...
OLIVIA MUNN Usually whenever you're scared of something, do it. If you're not afraid of it, don't do...
SYLVESTER STALLONE I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You&...
GEOFF JOHNS In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to b...
JUNOT DíAZ If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautio...
ZADIE SMITH Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think y...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You...
DYLAN MORAN You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th...
HARRY STYLES You really want to make sure that you have fun, at the end of the day. If it's not fun, what'...
AYELET ZURER The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you ...
ED WEEKS In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
MARGARET ATWOOD If you don't write about what you know, you're like a barrister and have to do a frightful a...
NGAIO MARSH I believe in tackling things you're afraid of.
HANNAH STORM I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of...
MONICA BELLUCCI If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER There is no good word for the opposite of lonesome.
One might be tempted to suggest togetherne...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming,...
LEE ANN WOMACK You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in th...
MEHMET OZ If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.
KOBE BRYANT I'm not afraid to lose my job, and when you're not afraid, you don't feel any pressures....
JOSE MOURINHO Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
MICHAEL ONDAATJE I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one w...
USHER This digital world is what you make of it in the end.
CIARA And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Don't set out to make a scary movie and then flinch every time you're supposed to scare some...
ANDREW BRYNIARSKI The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have...
ANG LEE Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures ...
PAUL STANLEY Happiness cries when the tears are dreaming
CHARLI XCX If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to w...
ADAM SCHLESINGER When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is th...
LOUIS THEROUX I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division i...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You're not that girl,' Cole said, sounding tired. 'Trust me, I've seen enough of them to know. Look....
MAGGIE STIEFVATER The hard fact of friendship is that you need to make time for new friends by first stripping out the...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand...
ACTION BRONSON I like to write in coffee shops in countries in which languages I do not speak are spoken. That way,...
ADAM MANSBACH You go into an audition, you're either the one or you're not, and if you're not, you go ...
BRYAN CALLEN You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
CARMEN EJOGO You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of cove...
DAVID BOWIE I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that yo...
ANTONIN SCALIA I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.
BJORN BORG At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.
LAKSHMI MITTAL If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone ...
LIL UZI VERT People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of...
LAURIE ANDERSON I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you ha...
JOSS WHEDON There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'...
CHAD HARBACH Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
DONALD TRUMP I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to me...
R. KELLY If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must alway...
DAVID SUZUKI You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's somethin...
DAVID LYNCH If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the...
TONI MORRISON If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they'r...
ADAM GRANT You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed al...
LEBRON JAMES In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
CAITLIN MORAN There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER ...beer makes people deaf...
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anonymous doors
my heart escaping in drips
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are singing and screaming and keening for love<...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried.

Sam translated: "Squishy."

"Creative."

"Danger...
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Stretching my hand to you
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

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Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me.
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Behind him, he heard Ronan say, "I like the way you losers thought Instagram before first aid. Fuck ...
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MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something."

"You'd talk abo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard."

"You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it."
"People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers."
"...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said.
Blue replied sarcas...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist."
"Did you get notes for me?"
"No. I thought you were dead in a ditc...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight."
Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER