"The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others."

-- Leo Rosten

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“If you want anybody to have a different voice, you really have to visualize and hear the voices of all these people. Sometimes when I write with specific actors in mind, it helps.”
“The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of othersâ€™ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.”

Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
“I feel that if I establish the world or the premise from the first line, then I can get the reader to come with me where I want her to go.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My creed is LOVE; Wherever its caravan turns along the way, That is my belief, My faith.”
“He knew he had no right to touch her, crave her like air, but he did both. And when he put his mouth on hers, he recognized the taste of her, like she'd been made just for him.”
“I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.”
“... an appallingly high percentage of doctors and other practitioners are still pretty much out of the loop regarding trigger points, despite their having been written about in medical journals for over sixty years.”
“You are mysterious, I love you. Youâ€™re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and thatâ€™s the rarest known combination.”

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