Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots. - Michael Connelly

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My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

Michael Connelly

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

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If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.

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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

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You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

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Miguel de Cervantes

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

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David Sedaris

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

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Daniel Radcliffe

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on films that's often playing Harry [Potter] or I just think it's a natural thing that I have. It's something that I think about just because it's fascinating in a very alien kind of way.

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Friedrich August von Hayek

. . . I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

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Mitt Romney

The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.

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