top of page
More

"To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy."
Joy

"Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful."
Effort

"One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled."
Effort

"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."
Woman

"The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy."
Decision-Making

"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."
Being

"A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat."
Thought

"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."
Reflection

"To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all."
Decision-Making

"As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game."
Love
More

"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
Author Name
Personal Development

"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
Author Name
Personal Development

"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
Author Name
Personal Development

"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You're certain to get a decision in a trial."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page