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“Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.”

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“There was a skill to organizing your life into neatly bundled anecdotes, and he lacked it.”

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“you are going to find that the heights you’ve attained make for a long fall if you don’t understand the mountain.”

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“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.”

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“Cooper had been at a scene once where a car had collided with an agent and pinned him against a metal barrier, shattering everything…

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“Data. That’s what matters. That’s what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it’s useless.”

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“intentions and results. Cooper’s intentions in killing Peters and releasing the video had been good; the results had been a disaster. Did that make…

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“When a sailor’s drowned body was found tangled in lines over the port side, the men agreed he must have fallen overboard in the…

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Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its…

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