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american-author good graceful pleased writers-and-writing
The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway. Jack Vance
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Henry David Thoreau
american-author best life love man woman
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself. Zane Grey
american-author countless wrote
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times. Jack Vance
american-author boy
Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl. Dick Bruna
american-author goes science senseless
I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. John Sladek
american-author finest iliad literature piece possibly respect
I have more respect for The Iliad now than I've ever had, and I've always thought it was possibly the finest piece of literature there was. Dan Simmons
american-author escapes great life reading remember suppose
I can't remember a time, really, when I haven't been a writer. Reading and writing were the two great escapes of my life and I suppose they still are. Robert Cormier
american-author time
I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read. John Sladek
reporters
I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter. Robert Scheer
trust lying criminal-mind
For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Robert Foster Bennett
trust deceived-us hype
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Rene Descartes
trust men accountability
A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody. Thomas Paine
trust failure appreciate
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Thomas Sowell
trust truth men
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson
trust liars lying
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. Stephen King
trust goal supportive
To pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy.... Stedman Graham
trust kings dust
And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust. Stephen Vincent Benet
trust directors forget
Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you. Samantha Morton