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Kelley Armstrong Quotes

Kelley Armstrong Quotes.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don’t want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.
Kelley Armstrong
It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I started admiring writers as inspirations for my own work, and my earliest influences there were Stephen King, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Richard Adams.
Kelley Armstrong
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.
Kelley Armstrong
Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
Kelley Armstrong
Never go easy on allies if you ahve to take them down. Especially allies. You’re already fighting the urge not to hurt them. Counteract that and hit them with everything you’ve got.
Kelley Armstrong
I don’t read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.
Kelley Armstrong
It’s because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says ‘bless you,’ the devil can snatch it.
Kelley Armstrong
Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren’t going to make it to the end, it’s crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don’t do that, the reader doesn’t care what happens to them.
Kelley Armstrong
You know children, always playing with the forces of darkness.
Kelley Armstrong
There is no story that can’t be improved by adding zombies.
Kelley Armstrong
So consider your options, make your choice and call me home.
Kelley Armstrong
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
Kelley Armstrong
Kids who don’t eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.
Kelley Armstrong
It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
Kelley Armstrong
Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.
Kelley Armstrong
Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he’s telling me I don’t have to let him make me feel stupid.
Kelley Armstrong
I’ve spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they’re unrecognizable.
Kelley Armstrong
He was trying to tell me something.’ Derek snorted. ‘Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.
Kelley Armstrong
No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
Kelley Armstrong
That’s what we all want, isn’t it? Power without price.
Kelley Armstrong
Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn’t just spring to life at age thirty.
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Remembering. Forgetting. I’m not sure which is worse.
Kelley Armstrong
Young writers need to be encouraged to write – just write – with no restrictions on form, style or content.
Kelley Armstrong
If you say ‘we’re in this together,’ I’m going to hurl.
Kelley Armstrong
One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas
Kelley Armstrong