#vice

Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#fun #pressure #wit #witty

I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough! ↗

— Brooklyn Hudson

#thrillers #writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-craft

Not all that is mortal is useless. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#infernal-devices #tessa-gray #tessa-gray

Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for perversity's sake, and all the better for that; the image created because an artist gets tired of reasons sometimes, and wants to dredge up some picture he's been haunted by, and parade it like a new tattoo. I go with it, readily. ↗

— Clive Barker

#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-craft

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#already #country #disagreement #elected #felt

I walked away if He's not Interested in any relationship. ↗

— Frances Ivy

#relationship

I'm not going to give President Bush any advice. He knows. He knows what I think. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#any #bush #give #going #i

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#temptations #vices #without

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith. ↗