I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.

Amanda Hocking

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

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zombie bangs doors

When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.

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important safe

I don't want only one night. I want all the nights. I want all of you, forever.

Amanda Hocking

want forever night

I was always writing. When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories. But as soon I as capable, I started writing. I filled notebooks and notebooks until I got my first computer when I was 11. It never really occurred to me that I would do anything else.

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notebook writing kids

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.

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choices trying sometimes

Mark my words, Princess,” Loki said. “One day, you’ll be madly in love with me.

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madly-in-love princess one-day

Everything I went through," he said. "For you. It was worth it.

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worth-it said

Not all prisons have bars

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bars prison

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

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series seems sometimes

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

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live-by appearance way

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

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suitors men needs

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

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desperation doing-you favors

During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using that logic,Tove spent most of the morning trying to irritate me into using it. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time I just got pointlessly annoyed.

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annoyed mind morning

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

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icons self want

Every man would fall in love with their voice, their lovely appearance, but no man would ever get past that. They'd never really know the girls for who they actually were, never really love them. It would be impossible for any of the four girls to ever really fall in love and be genuinely loved in return.

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falling-in-love girl men

How did I look at you? I asked thickly. Like you had to, like I was a magnet you were pulled to. There was no choice, he said. And when you look at Jack, it's because when he's around, why would you want to look at anything else? You love him the way you could never love me.

Amanda Hocking

choices want looks

You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!

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kill-me foolish mean

I'm not all you need, and I don't even want to be. I just want to love you, for the rest of my life, and as long as you let me do that, we'll be okay.

Amanda Hocking

love-you long needs

For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.

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dollars book people

That's kind of creepy.

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creepy kind