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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
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"You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, but the new skill I had to learn when I was writing Brighton Belle was difficult. I had to avoid the equivalent of shouting, "this character's a murderer! Look who did it!."
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"Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me."
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"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
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"We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including those supplied by nature and religion, which touch upon the mystical and spiritual aspects of life. Symbols inspire enduring hope by formulating idealist expectations."
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"I'm a fairly undisciplined writer."
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"Writing is the supreme solace."
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"Writers aren't exactly people, they're a bunch of people trying to be one person."
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"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
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"Pour your heart onto the page."
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"You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough."
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"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
Reality
"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
Art
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."
Being
"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."
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"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."
Nation
"Life is a school of probability."
Life
"The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be."
Mistake
"A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people."
People
"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."
Work
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