The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.


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COURTNEY LOVE
I like that Finland gave the U.S. a game.
COURTNEY RIEPENOFF
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
COURTNEY LOVE
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind...
COURTNEY LOVE
A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reas...
COURTNEY GIARDINA
because she's really smart, and she's really cool, and, like me, we share the distinction of being t...
COURTNEY LOVE
We are getting a lot of good stuff done. My girls are just working really hard. I admire their ambit...
COURTNEY BERRY
If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant thing...
COURTNEY BARNETT
...a deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing yo...
COURTNEY SUMMERS
I don't like you with Becky. She's not a very nice girl.'
'I don't like you with Jake. He's not...
COURTNEY SUMMERS
It's so funny because the roles that I've been offered in the indie film world have been sim...
COURTNEY FORD
I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie ...
COURTNEY FORD
He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.
COURTNEY LOVE
Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live throu...
COURTNEY LOVE
I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the b...
COURTNEY LOVE
This extension will focus everyone's attention on trying to reach an agreement. We continue to belie...
COURTNEY PRATT
To be given a lead role in something as cool and fresh and crazy as 'Spartacus' was a real t...
JAI COURTNEY
We feel we're champions. We won fair and square. We beat them. We even beat them without our player....
COURTNEY COLLISHAW
It's a really worthy cause, and we like to do whatever we can to help out. We really enjoy being a p...
COURTNEY VINCENT
We felt it was important to close the facilities since multiple areas had been exposed. The incubati...
COURTNEY THOMAS
Coach has said all yearlong that teams were going to try to stop [me] and Christie. And that [everyo...
COURTNEY COLLISHAW
This plan, together with the restructuring agreement with the province, represents a significant ste...
COURTNEY PRATT
We have to jell those three classes together. That's probably one of the biggest feats this season.
COURTNEY DEBOLT
We tried to straighten it one time.
COURTNEY LEWIS
The Healy's mission is to monitor the waters of the Arctic. It makes sense to homeport the vessel in...
COURTNEY BOONE
I'm not sure who spun me around. I was coming up to turn three and wasn't in any braking areas and I...
JAMES COURTNEY
[They still live in Portland, a Pacific Northwest city 150 miles south of Seattle.] Portland has pre...
COURTNEY TAYLOR
We went through ten years of the Limp Bizkit thing, and I didn't know what to do.
COURTNEY LOVE
That's the point of a jam, ... It feels good to do it, to just lay around, smoke out, talk to your f...
COURTNEY TAYLOR
You have to make adjustments on speed and awareness. It's like five seconds quicker; everything's qu...
COURTNEY LEE
Every game, we try to faze (opponents) with our pressure. We want them to be scared to get the ball ...
COURTNEY VANDERSLOOT
Tea can have just as much caffeine, we just tend to find that it takes longer to hit you, it's more ...
COURTNEY KAMMERER
I am God and my lawyers are my 12 disciples...do not f**k with me!
COURTNEY LOVE
I'm going to try to do something on my own. I doubt we pull anything out of the bag on A-Day.
COURTNEY TAYLOR
I mean not even on the court. I mean growing up, meeting new people, taking a chance coming to Oklah...
COURTNEY PARIS
The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something...
COURTNEY SUMMERS
I don't see how she couldn't wake up and hear them messing her house up and stuff.
COURTNEY COX
Criminal investigations is very important to Rickey. He has worked in it for many years, and he has ...
COURTNEY COX
My main concern right now ... is that it leaves the criminal investigations division without people ...
COURTNEY COX
We're going to take a look at what's happening here and try to find out what's really going on befor...
COURTNEY COX
Her participation (in the complaint filed Thursday) is based on her belief that the city's not in co...
COURTNEY COX
I was advised not to do Scream because no one likes horror movies. Then I heard, 'Don't audition bec...
COURTNEY COX
We're just trying to go to college and get somewhere.
COURTNEY WARD
A worm of fear wriggled in Jaden’s stomach, and the ethereal assuredness he channeled moments befo...
COURTNEY KIRCHOFF
The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.
COURTNEY LOVE
What's funny about the slacker thing, people project an image of what they think a musician is: ...
COURTNEY BARNETT
The challenges facing successful implementation of the exploration vision are formidable, ... rangin...
COURTNEY STADD
We got a little stale and let them get back into it, but we kept our heads just like we did at (the ...
COURTNEY MEYER
Cole's just talking -- ain't nobody jealous of no Cole. Cole was running so slow. I was going to try...
COURTNEY TAYLOR
We're not lowering our standards. This is a catalyst for all the good families out there. We're will...
COURTNEY FRANK
We tried. We worked hard to get the word out. We did interviews, we did CNN, we went everywhere, but...
COURTNEY HILL
I realize I can get points off the glass. When teams are taking me away on the offensive end, I can ...
COURTNEY SIMS
I'm not a huge fan of romantic comedies- my taste goes much more to the offbeat and dark. I'd love t...
COURTNEY COX
The performance was exotic. It was short. And it wasn't much more dreadful than the Chinese opera th...
COURTNEY MILAN
When they needed her to step up against Finland, she did. She has strength, leadership and she's doi...
COURTNEY RIEPENOFF
Over the past year there has been significant yardage gained for the Vision for Space Exploration. T...
COURTNEY STADD
Ben goes to her. She's on the umbrella at the top of the power play. She's playing very well.
COURTNEY RIEPENOFF