Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

Shannon Hale

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Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice.

Shannon Hale

Tags: on-writing

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Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming...I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Shannon Hale

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We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Shannon Hale

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Being a writer is a good, good thing.

Shannon Hale

Tags: books writing story author

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I don't know how you persist in being so stubborn-"
"It's a superpower. I was bitten by a radioactive mule.

Shannon Hale

Tags: humor sarcasm retort stubborn superpower

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Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.

Shannon Hale

Tags: life dreams austen

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I'm a terrible prince. I should put my kingdom first and everything else second, but your first. I want you by my side every second, but I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Shannon Hale

Tags: romance

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I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

Shannon Hale

Tags: humor bossy capable

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Just like the old adage--what you dislike most in other people is what you dislike the most in yourself--

Shannon Hale

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