#up

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics. ↗

— George Stephen

#basics #books #came #decided #did

A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted. ↗

— George Stephen

#after #books #couple #i #offer

For each book, the time is also broken up. ↗

— George Stephen

#book #broken #each #time #up

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#difference #educated #educated people #facts #ignorant

Most countries are static, and they need to do is keep having babies. But America's like this big old clanking smoking machine that just lumbers across the landscape scooping up and eating everything in sight. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#america #babies #big #countries #eating

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#aware #brain #come #human #human brain

I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#arid #coming #day #every #every day

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

#ghost #had #locked #locked up #most

I remember a couple of instrumental albums, just don't ask the names. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

#ask #couple #i #i remember #instrumental