Laura Miller Quotes - Page 2

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• Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

  Laura Miller

  Children, Real, Book

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• Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

  Laura Miller

  Children, Book, Reading

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• Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.

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  Dream, Morning, Stealing

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• If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

  Laura Miller

  Children, Book, Lists

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• There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

  Laura Miller

  Perfect, Ifs

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• The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

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  Art, Mean, Explaining

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• The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

  Laura Miller

  Past, Haunting, Determined

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• Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

  Laura Miller

  Perfect, Kind, Made

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• Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

  Laura Miller

  Towns, Small Town

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• Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.

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  Mistake, Writing, Organization

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• Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

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  Leaving, Doe, Gone

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• Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.

  Laura Miller

  Writing, People, Would Be

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