"Plotting isn't like sex, because you can go back and adjust it afterwards. Whether you plan your story beforehand or not, if the climax turns out to be the revelation that the mad professor's anti-gravity device actually works, you must go back and silently delete all those flying cars buzzing around the city on page one. If you want to reveal something, you need to hide it properly first."

-- Colin Greenland

#Sex Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cities Quotes

“There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.”

Source : Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.
“Faffing, of course, does not fit the programme. We are supposed to be busy, productive citizens.”
“Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men.”
“I was the happiest guy in the world when I was on the ice. You're being paid to play a game! That's pretty special.”
“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.”
“I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.”
“Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.”
“But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.”

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