"I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue."

-- Ron Rash

#Decision Quotes #Stories Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
“Now I'm in a situation where I have to plan very far ahead because there are people who are selling ads, so I have to really know what I'm going to do months in advance. If something's taking me a little bit longer to research, that's not okay. I can't take longer. I have to just get it done.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?”
“The way you become divine is to become wholly human”
“But sometimes you have to be brave. Sometimes you have to show people what's important in life.”
“God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us”
“I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 25, 2011.
“Only those who are ideologically opposed to military programs think of the defense budget as the first and best place to get resources for social welfare needs.”

Source : Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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