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

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Writing, Ideas, Easy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

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Thinking, Might, Tone

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.133, Open Road Media

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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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Very well. You may help me exterminate the Society of Wizards.

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Wizards, May, Helping

"The Enchanted Forest Chronicles".

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Mendanbar took a deep breath. You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me. This wasn't coming out at all the way he had wanted it to, but it was too late to stop now. He hurried on, As Queen of the Enchanted Forest, if you think you would like that. I would.

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Marriage, Queens, Mean

Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.334, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

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Glasses, Waiting, Looks

Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.344, Scholastic Inc.

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She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

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Laughing, Lasts, Doe

Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.770, Open Road Media

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Born: March 27, 1953
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