Lois Duncan Quotes

• Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

  Lois Duncan

  Building, Knows

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• Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.

  Lois Duncan

  Mind, Machines, Stories

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• If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

  Lois Duncan

  Past, Years, Bird

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• We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

  Lois Duncan

  Wise, Hurt, Fire

  Lois Duncan, Rudy Gutierrez (1999). “Trapped!: Cages of Mind and Body”, Simon Pulse

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• Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

  Lois Duncan

  Writing, Self, Crafts

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• Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the reader likes and relates to (2) overcomes increasingly difficult obstacles (3) to reach an important goal. The more important the goal, the stronger the novel. And the most important goal that any of us have is survival. That's why murder mysteries are more gripping than a story titled "Who Stole My TV Set.

  Lois Duncan

  Murder Mysteries, Goal, Survival

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• December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.

  Lois Duncan

  Heart, Want, Months

  Lois Duncan (1989). “Don't Look Behind You”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

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• People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the result of both environment and heredity, and your fictional characters, in order to be believable, must be also.

  Lois Duncan

  Spring, Character, Blue

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• aloud she said why not you ray you were involed in this as much as the resst of uswhy is it that bud never tried to do anything to you ?his armed tighted around her.'he knew the worst thing for me was a world without you

  Lois Duncan

  Rays, Bud, Why Not

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