"One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that."

-- Kathy Reichs

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“Your imagination is the single most important asset you possess. Your imagination is your power to create mental pictures of things that don't exist yet and that you want to bring into being. Your imagination is what you use to shape your future. And so in your own way, you are a prophet. You generate countless predictions every day. Your imagination is the source,tirelessly churning out mental pictures of what you'll be doing in the future.”
“You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditch.”
“All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.”

Source : Ken Venturi, Al Barkow (1983). “The Venturi System: With Special Material on Shotmaking for the Advanced Golfer”, Atheneum Books
“That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.102, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.”

Source : "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.
“I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.”
“There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.”
“We can choose to function at a lower level of awareness and simply exist, caring for our possessions, eating, drinking, sleeping and managing in the world as pawns of the elements, or we can soar to new and higher levels of awareness allowing ourselves to transcend our environment and literally create a world of our own - a world of real magic.”

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