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The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.


Shandy L. Kurth

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H. L. MENCKEN No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
D. L. HUGHLEY The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. DOCTOROW The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
L. RON HUBBARD I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other...
RANDALL L. STEPHENSON Relax! Life is beautiful!
DAVID L. WOLPER Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
LOUISE L. HAY People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little,...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN Our Father knew exactly what He was doing when He created us. He made us enough alike to love each o...
SHERI L. DEW If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS