February

fiction

story

word

youth

occupation / innovator as

novelist

children's writer

nationality

American

missionary

is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

is a mean bully, punch after punch after punch.

Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.

is a month made a few days shorter by God because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

is autobiography turned into fiction in order to give it credibility.

I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

is open-ended. It invites you into it to make your own meaning.

A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. Katherine Paterson

is a precious natural resource which most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together.

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. (Katherine Paterson)

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