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- I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have…
- I don’t mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don’t want to get nibbled to death. There’s a difference.
- If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.
- People do not want advice - they want corroboration.
- Why do men like me want sons? he wondered. It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who…
- The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he…
- What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.
- A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never…
- I start out to write five days a week, and then it runs to six days and finally seven. Then, eventually, that wave of weariness…
- No one wants advice - only corroboration.
- You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
- After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed.…
- So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them…
- I'll want to hear,' Samuel said. 'I eat stories like grapes.
- Any man of reasonable intelligence can make money if that's what he wants. Mostly it's women or clothes or admiration he really wants and they…
- A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has…
- Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don’t make me mean. I don’t want to be. If you will let everybody like me,…
- Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and…
- Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
- For it is said that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more. And this is said in…
- When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.
- I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.
- Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets…
- We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
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