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- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is…
- All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we…
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
- I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their…
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble…
- I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to…
- Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than…
- For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, the demand that…
- Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always…
- I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,…
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