"A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth."

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David Morrell

#Reality Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Thrillers Quotes

“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
“When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...”
“The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.”
“It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.”

Source : "Q&A WITH MARIAH CAREY : 'My Whole Life I've Been Going for This Goal'". Interview with Richard Cromelin, articles.latimes.com. November 23, 1993.
“I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.”
“If we want to cook food we need to leave the stove on continuously and not keep turning it on and off. If the heat is continuous, no matter whether it is high or low our food will eventually be cooked. Similarly, if we continuously apply effort, even if it is only a small effort, it is certain that we shall eventually experience the fruits of our practice.”
“I might not know where you are or what you are doing right now, but if you hear my voice will you come to me?”
“People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.”

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