#act

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#belief #faith #passive

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#facts #go #human #human nature #nature

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#exactly #feel #i #myself #people

I guess, what I'm saying is that when I've been this surprised by my own characters and world, all bets are off. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bets #characters #guess #i #my own

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#been #digest #i #since #stories

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#actually #anything #book #dreaming #fun

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#characters #constantly #friends #give #i

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I? ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#book #character #character development #development #i

Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#men #strength-of-character #superiority #women #equality

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aspects #defense #difficult #easy #emphasis