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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 moreâ€¦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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Jobs #Business #Writing
“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.â€ â€œReally? Did it work?â€ â€œWell, I havenâ€™t had a toothache since I met her.â€ â€œIâ€™d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Giving #Rose #Teeth
“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!”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Latin #Princess #Dragons
“May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Fall #Purple #Orange
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Thinking #Might #Tone
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Cutting #People #Tree
“In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Wish #Done #Situation
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Brother #Children #Thinking
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Morning #Feelings #Together
“Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting childrenâ€™s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readersâ€¦at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Children #Book #Eight
“Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#People #Might #Firsts
“If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Couple #Iron #Car
“How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?”
-- Patricia C. Wrede
“Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Worry #Long #Marketing
“She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Laughing #Lasts #Doe
“Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Writing #Ideas #Easy
“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."”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Writing #Ideas #People
“In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseâ€™s mother was staying at home.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Mother #Home #Way
“Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Memories #Humility #Soul
“Iâ€™d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Rose #Mouths #Teeth
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Marriage #Queens #Mean
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Fall #Clouds #Trying
“Very well. You may help me to exterminate the society of wizards.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Wizards #May #Helping
“There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Knowing #Awkward #Reassuring
“You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Doors #Kitchen #Library
“You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right".”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Mean #Unique #Design
“Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Past #Littles #Kim
“That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Way #Looks #Matter
“Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Hero #World #Combination
“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.”
-- Patricia C. Wrede

#Glasses #Waiting #Noses

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