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"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

"At least I'm not afraid, and no one will ever call me boring."

"Throw a warrior to the wolves and he'll return a conqueror."

"Fear makes people speechless."

"When the sails are strong a ship has no reason to fear turbulence."

"All great achievements of humanity begin with the madness of a few lion-hearts."

"Walking on water is safer than sailing in a leaking boat."
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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."


"Wellsted will remember this moment for the rest of his life. It is the first time he desires something for himself that is not dedicated to his own advancement. It is the moment he falls in love."


"Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement."


"If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we'd have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they're erratic. People do crazy things that don't make sense."


"Mrs Beaumont shrugged. 'Dougie travelled light in life,' she said. 'He knew it was people who were important."


"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."


"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."
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