#var

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#asking #asking questions #authors #done #excel

Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #focus #genre #lot #mind

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. ↗

— Stendhal

#kind #worst

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#accumulate #data #declining #ends #ignorance

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#be happy #because #cow #elephant #good

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#because #before #better #brother #counselor

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#chicago #columbia #creative #harvard #imaginative

Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#almost #cells #countries #entrepreneurial #kind

They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time. ↗

— John Sweeney

#big #big time #boulevard #called #death

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time." ↗

— Stephen King

#asked #how #i #invariably #one word