I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
God's word is tailor-made for gray-slush days. It sends a beam of light through the fog. It signals safety when we fear… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share Image
People (a group that in my opinion has always attracted an undue amount of attention) have often been likened to snowflakes. This… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I've learned a lot about language from reading slush. You can immediately tell if a writer is in control of the narrative.… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality… — Tim Lebbon Copy Share Image
Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I guess I'm what you call a slush-piler. I just sent my manuscripts to the slush pile of publishers and hoped for… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't… — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that… — Denis Mackail Copy Share Image
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
“I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more supple vagabond, too, is sure to appear on the least rumor of such a gathering, and the next day to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
