Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.
But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.
. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.
Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and which will put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.
Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It's about building a system to replace yourself.
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.
There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.
For someone who'e smarter than a supercomputer, sometimes you're a real idiot.
People are smarter than you might think.
I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.
We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
I felt like if I could get the epiphany out of the way in my drafting process, through my eighth or tenth draft, then that can just be part of how I've assembled the character, and then we can move on and move forward with it. In general, I don't ever want to feel smarter than my characters, because I just feel like that's not a great way to write a story.
We are just as a good as men are - and maybe better and smarter.
I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.
I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.
