Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
Perhaps true faith is a form of insanity.
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.
Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and humiliation.
I need there to be documentary photographers, because my work is meta-documentary; it is a commentary about the documentary use of photography.
I'll note you in my book of memory.
I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.