"And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants."

-- Tod Goldberg

#Giving Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I have been informed repeatedly that in lieu of records, I would be expected to testify about my service in the White House to demonstrate my experience and judicial philosophy,”

Source : "Miers Withdraws Nomination". www.foxnews.com. October 27, 2005.
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.”
“To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.308, Penguin
“Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.”
“The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.”
“The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.”
“My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.”
“Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.”

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