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I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it’s good.
– Leigh Bardugo

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  1. The ox feels the yoke, but does the bird feel the weight of its wings? – Leigh Bardugo
  2. This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
  3. Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that [-¦]. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan) – Leigh Bardugo
  4. Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return. – Leigh Bardugo
  5. This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do. – Leigh Bardugo
  6. Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine. – Leigh Bardugo
  7. She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman. – Leigh Bardugo
  8. There is no pain like the pain of transformation. – Leigh Bardugo
  9. He doesn’t need a donkey,- says Ana Kuya. -œHe has a wife. – Leigh Bardugo
  10. I opened my mouth, but the same words came to me again and again.I will not scream. I will not scream. I will not scream. – Leigh Bardugo
  11. Her heart felt too full, a dry creek bed ill-prepared for such rain. – Leigh Bardugo
  12. Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too. – Leigh Bardugo
  13. You don’t ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it. – Leigh Bardugo
  14. I’d learned to avoid mirrors. They never seemed to show me what I wanted to see. – Leigh Bardugo
  15. Because I am a doll, and a servant. Because I am a pretty thing and a soldier all the same. – Leigh Bardugo
  16. Of course I’m jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn’t the point. – Leigh Bardugo
  17. They fear as I once feared you,- he said. -œAs you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina – Leigh Bardugo
  18. The person she liked best didn’t like her enough to want more of her, and she didn’t want to pretend that wasn’t awful. – Leigh Bardugo
  19. Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself. – Leigh Bardugo
  20. i prefer to think of the good times. Like when you held my hair as I was vomiting into a bucket. – Leigh Bardugo
  21. Abruptly, Adrik snarled, ‘I’m glad Sergei’s dead. I’m just sorry I didn’t get to wring his neck myself.”You’d need two hands for that,’ said – Leigh Bardugo
  22. A wise warrior learns from her mistakes. – Leigh Bardugo
  23. The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true. – Leigh Bardugo
  24. I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book – that one book every writer carries within him – the image of his own soul. – Ignazio Silone
  25. Writing a book is like raising a child, the only difference is you don’t have the ????ing part in writing a book. – MF Moonzajer
  26. Writing a book isn’t just about ‘writing a book.’ Unfortunately, it’s about selling it, and getting it out to the masses. – Margaret Aranda
  27. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  29. It takes work to become the person you were created to be. You’re worth the work! – Kirstin Leigh
  30. What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing! – Leo Tolstoy
  31. You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes. – Liane Moriarty
  32. Knowledge may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to ignorance. Light may be terrible, but we can only prefer it to the dark. – Welcome to Nightvale
  33. Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for the harness about us. – Isaac Asimov
  34. In one terrible instant, that terrible thing happened, the single most tragic experience of my, and just about any, childhood: boredom. – Harrison Scott Key
  35. A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight. – Sue Miller
  36. Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. – George RR Martin
  37. A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
  38. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
  39. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
  40. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen

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