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My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!

My stories are my children. Some are sweet infants that I coddle and care for. Others are old enough now, they need to damn well get a job!
– Christy Hall

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  1. Souls are more important than stories, yes. But stories are a window to the soul. Without stories, the soul suffocates. – Christy Hall
  2. Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. – Kelli Jae Baeli
  3. A writer writes. There are no exceptions to this reality. No excuses. Stop wasting time talking about your stories and get them on paper. – Christy Hall
  4. Live inside your stories, yes, but do not hide behind them. – Christy Hall
  5. I’m turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud. – Christy Hall
  6. Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head. – Christy Hall
  7. Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults. – Tony Reinke
  8. When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
  9. What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
  10. Sweet to the miser are his glittering heaps,Sweet to the father is his first-born’s birth,Sweet is revenge–especially to women – George Gordon Byron
  11. One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. – Jane Goodall
  12. Celebrities are like infants. Neither can wipe their own ass. – Michael Brian
  13. Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage, – Richelle Mead
  14. Maybe she knew some day it would become my job. My job to complete the melody she had begun. – Tessa Emily Hall
  15. Smile, even when others do not.Care, even when others will not.Love, even when others could not.Give, even when others cannot. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  16. People need stories…we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. – Jennifer Chiaverini
  17. When doing a job -” any job -” one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. – Hyman G Rickover
  18. You don’t think any job’s a job unless it’s your job. – Last Man Standing
  19. It’s okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can. – Christy Hall
  20. I want everyday magic. – Christy Hall
  21. Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder. – Christy Hall
  22. If I had a nickel for all the times I’ve been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire! – Christy Hall
  23. Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn’t stop. – Christy Hall
  24. Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I’m crazy… – Christy Hall
  25. Life baffles me most days. Maybe that’s why I write. To try and make sense of it all. – Christy Hall
  26. The defining lines of reality have always been a bit blurred for me. – Christy Hall
  27. I am swimming in a sea of words, attempting to keep my head above water. – Christy Hall
  28. When a solid first draft of an original tale is complete…you feel as if you could do anything. – Christy Hall
  29. Give all that you can. No more. No less. Every. Single. Day. – Christy Hall
  30. I write because that is what I am supposed to do. – Christy Hall
  31. What you really want is all too often hidden just behind what you think you want. – Christy Hall
  32. Let life be the foundation. Be brave. Wander deep inside yourself to the little room no one knows about. Fling the door wide open and write. – Christy Hall
  33. This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most. – Christy Hall
  34. A writing day is like any other day. Except I live in my pajamas, I forget to eat, and I suddenly look up, wondering when day turned into night. – Christy Hall
  35. Lost in New York City. Not that I don’t know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going. – Christy Hall
  36. You are more ready and able to grasp at opportunity when your hands are empty. – Christy Hall
  37. Lost in New York City. Not that I don’t know where I am, but rather perplexed as to where I am going. – Christy Hall
  38. New York is perfect. Just the way it is. In all its imperfection. – Christy Hall
  39. I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time. – Christy Hall
  40. You know you’re officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water. – Christy Hall

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