Patricia C. Wrede Quotes

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

  Patricia C. Wrede

  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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• 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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• Esta es la lección más importante que debes aprender sobre la magia", prosiguió la señorita Ochiba. "Hay muchas formas de ver. Cada una tiene un elemento de verdad, pero ninguna es toda la verdad. Si os limitáis a una sola forma de ver, a una sola verdad, limitaréis vuestro poder. También pondréis límites a los tipos de hechizos que podéis lanzar, así como a su fuerza. Para ser un buen mago, debes ver de muchas maneras. Debes ser flexible. Debes estar dispuesto a aprender de diferentes fuentes. Y siempre debes recordar que las verdades que ves son incompletas.

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  Life, Missing, Magic

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

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  Sabe, Si

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

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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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  Hermano, Niños, Pensar

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, 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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• 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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• Por muy bueno que seas escabulléndote, nunca puedes hacerlo lo suficientemente bien como para que los mosquitos no te encuentren, y por muy preocupado y tenso que estés, o por mucho que intentes prestar atención, no puedes evitar darte cuenta cuando una nube de mosquitos viene a por ti como si fueras su primera buena comida desde el otoño pasado.

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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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  Escritura, Ideas, Personas

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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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• 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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  Pozos

  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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• 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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• Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

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  Worry, Long, Marketing

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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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• 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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• 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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