Attention Quote by Alice McDermott

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no…

— Mary C. Ames

I was raised in, and presumably to, the cutlery business. I really didn't think that that's what I wanted to do for a career.…

— H. W. Brands

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that…

— Raymond Queneau

Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his…

— Ray Bradbury

You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.

— Erica Jong

The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn…

— Ted Dekker

Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to…

— Natalie Goldberg

Anyone who commits an act of violence to themselves or others is worth consideration in the sense that there must be something that brought…

— Rebecca Hall

You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the…

— Guillermo del Toro

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

— George Bernard Shaw

There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above…

— Gottfried Leibniz