Patricia C. Wrede Quotes

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• Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

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  Writing, Ideas, Easy

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• I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

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  Jobs, Business, Writing

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• This is the most important lesson you must learn about magic," Miss Ochiba went on. "There are many ways of seeing. Each has an element of truth, but none is the whole truth. If you limit yourselves to one way of seeing, one truth, you will limit your power. You will also place limits on the kinds of spells you can cast, as well as their strength. To be a good magician, you must see in many ways. You must be flexible. You must be willing to learn from different sources. And you must always remember that the truths you see are incomplete.

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  Life, Missing, Magic

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• Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

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  Memories, Humility, Soul

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.96, Scholastic Inc.

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• I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

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  Rose, Teeth, Mouths

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

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  Knows, Ifs

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.53, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

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  Talking, Way, Nine

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

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  Wish, Done, Situation

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• No proper princess would come out looking for dragons," Woraug objected. "Well I'm not a proper princess then!" Cimorene snapped. "I make cherries jubillee and I volunteer for dragons, and I conjugate Latin verbs-- or at least I would if anyone would let me. So there!

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  Latin, Princess, Dragons

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth.” “Really? Did it work?” “Well, I haven’t had a toothache since I met her.” “I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

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  Giving, Rose, Teeth

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• Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

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  Brother, Children, Thinking

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

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  Fall, Purple, Orange

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “Searching for Dragons”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

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  Mother, Home, Generations

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• He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

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  Doctors, Way, Medical

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.89, Scholastic Inc.

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• No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

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  Fall, Clouds, Trying

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

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  Mistake, Dragons, Sound

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “Calling on Dragons”, p.251, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of the things everybody seems to want to ask writers is, "Where do you get your ideas?" When people ask me this, my usual response is, "Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down."

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  Writing, Ideas, People

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• Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do.

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  Said, Make Sense, Courses

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• Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

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  Couple, Book, Answers

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

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  Wells

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.443, Macmillan

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• She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

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  Cutting, People, Tree

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before.

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  Voice, Advice, Mind

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• The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked reproachfully.

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  Wizards, Cleaning, Efficiency

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• It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

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  Morning, Feelings, Together

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

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  Children, Book, Eight

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