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- What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more…
- There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.
- To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of…
- I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that…
- I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
- I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle