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- By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be…
- Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because…
- I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels…
- Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place…
- People in small towns, much more than in cities, share a destiny.
- If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard,…
- What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual…
- The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong,…
- I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who…
- My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence…
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- 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