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reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer’s breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer—perhaps more.”
The atmosphere in the room was so thick with dramatic clichés you could have cut it with a knife.
She was a bit like a strict parent, your worst teacher and a newly appointed South American dictator all rolled into one—which wasn’t to say I didn’t like her or respect her. It was just that I felt I was still nine whenever she spoke to me.
the function of geniuses was to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years on.”
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception,
the wind whipped the flakes into something akin to a large cloud of excitable winter midges.
a highly unlikely infatuation kindled in the furnace of parental disapproval.
the most righteous characters are the first ones to go loco
“Think before you do what you do with whom.”
in the voice of someone who thinks he understands a great deal but is sadly mistaken,
As a general rule, identical words (with exceptions such as names, small words and modified repetitions) cannot be repeated within fifteen words as it interrupts the smooth transfer of images into the reader’s mind.
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.”
“tyrants are all the same—shocking temper when they don’t get their own way!
to ensure TGC would be too inefficient and unimaginative to pose a threat. They appointed a committee to run it.
the hero of any story is the one who changes the most.
