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• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody… — Geraldine Brooks
• The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Enlightenment is always through surrender, but surrender is achieved through intelligence. Only idiots cannot surrender. To surrender you need great… — Rajneesh
• Live each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind,… — Fulton J. Sheen
• I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know… — George R. R. Martin
• Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented… — Sol Stein
• Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. — Lord Byron
• Every picture should have a place you can go, a home, a climax. — Jay Maisel
• In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice. — Alice B. Toklas
• To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret,… — Roger Ebert
• Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have… — Stephen R. Donaldson
• Plotting is like sex. Plotting is about desire and satisfaction, anticipation and release. You have to arouse your reader's desire… — Colin Greenland

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