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Creating the characters is the most creative part of the novel except for the language itself. There I am, sitting in front of my computer in right-brain mode, typing the things that come to mind - which become the seeds of plot. It's scary, though, because I always wonder: Is it going to be there this time?

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Always Am Because Become Characters Come Computer Creating Creative Except Front Going Itself Language Mind Mode Most Novel Part Plot Scary Seeds Sitting Things Though Time Typing Which Wonder I Am

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When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Book Computer Day Every Every Day Except Five Get Go Going Me Minimum Pages Six Ski Skiing Start Take Then Trip Up Weekends Write I Write

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The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Afternoon Asked Belief Drifting Except Fifties Moment Nothing Place Power Satisfy Seem Sunny Taken You

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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

~Elizabeth Taylor

Topics: Everything Except Films Makes Making Me Nervous

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I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.

~Elizabeth Wurtzel

Topics: American Banker Character Could Day Did Every Every Day Except Found Get Greenwich Hollywood Hours Lost Main Main Character Mobile Occasional Phone Psycho Seeming Smart Star Village Walk

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People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

~Elle Macpherson

Topics: Because Everything Except Fashion Fashion Industry Film Film Industry Image Industry Lot More Nothing People Press Sell Than Used You

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I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

~Ellen Barkin

Topics: About Am Big Big Mistake Except Fault Introspective Mistake Person Really Reflective Then Think I Am

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The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Antichrist Before Between Closely Counterfeit Delusion Distinguish Except Great His Holy Impossible Last Marvelous Open Our Perform Resemble Scriptures Sight Soon Them True Us Will Works

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The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

~Ellen Gilchrist

Topics: Always Coast Enough Except Florida Like Mississippi Now Now And Then Seems Shirts South Then Warm

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Evolution, dismissed as a sloppy programmer, has seen fit to create us as a wild amalgam of everything that came before us: except for the realm of insects, the whole history of life on earth is inscribed within our bodies.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Before Bodies Came Create Dismissed Earth Everything Evolution Except Fit History Insects Life Our Programmer Realm Seen Sloppy Us Whole Wild Within

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