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Lauren Canaday Johnson
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“I’m a writer because I was a reader who wanted there to be more books like the books I loved.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“There was a moment of silence. "Once more, you've proven just how brave you are."
"I just...I just did what I thought was right."
"And that often takes the most bravery, doesn't it?”
― Fall of Ruin and Wrath
"I just...I just did what I thought was right."
"And that often takes the most bravery, doesn't it?”
― Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“A throne was a kind of weapon by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“Another unnecessary usage is what’s called an expletive construction—look for “there is,” “there are,” “there were”—which can be fixed simply by finding the stronger subject within the existing sentence and giving it a better verb to work with: “There were several new clues in the starlet’s hotel room” could be written as “The starlet’s hotel room offered up several new clues.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
Lauren’s 2025 Year in Books
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