"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."

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"In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Home, Love, Feet

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Truth, Belonging, Acceptance

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

Home, Cat, Pet, Loyalty

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Home, Day, Healing, Public, Shadow

"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."

Alice Walker, American Author

Home,

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Home, Past, Present

"People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace."

Zig Ziglar, American Author

Home, People, Relationships

"The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation."

C. L. R. James, British Journalist

Home, Contrast, Isolation

"I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home."

Florence King, American Writer

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"If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong."

Wrong

"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else."

Friendship

"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."

Effort

"I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked."

Age

"People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story."

People

"The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?"

Character

"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

Art

"Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title."

Concern

"I would like immortality."

Immortality

"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed."

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