"If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story."

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Karin Tidbeck

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“Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.”
“Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1841). “The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse ...”, p.186
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
“The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.”

Source : "Nightmare Abbey".
“The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 521-24, XIV, line 139, 1922.
“Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.”
“People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.”
“So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love.”

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