The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
Harlan Ellison
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You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.
In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.
They minute people fall in love they become liars.
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The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.
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Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.
More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.