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"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."
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"When we miss understanding, we meet misunderstanding. Misunderstanding always pushes understanding far away!"
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"The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words."
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"One who utters speech that isn't rough But instructive and truthfulSo that he offends no one, Him I call Brahmin."
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"Words don't get accident, hands and tongues drive them wrongly!"
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"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
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"When it occurs without having to voice it - vibin' on the same page, flowin' on the same wave, soakin' up the same light rays."
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"Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish."
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"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."
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"Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis."
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"Silence can answer the question words may fail to answer. If you want to know what silence can do, keep silence!"
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
Creativity
"It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me."
Growth
"Only a man with nothing to hide could make that kind of racket."
Integrity
"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."
Reflection
"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."
Politics
"In crime books it's possible to chart forensic technology by how well it has to be explained to a reader. In mid-Victorian crime novels fingerprinting has to be explained because it's new. Nowadays it's part of our world and we can simply assume that knowledge if we write about it."
Crime
"Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble."
Knowledge
"A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind."
Mortality
"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."
Writing
"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
Mystery
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