"The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it."

-- Dick Cavett

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Able Quotes

“There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.”
“I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.”

Source : "Tony Abbott vows to fight Liberal leadership spill motion - live" by Gabrielle Chan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2015.
“If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country”
“Donald Trump said that if President Obama releases his birth certificate, Trump will release his tax return. Obama said he won't run for a second term if Trump releases that thing on his head.”
“The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'”
“Plan your work and work your plan.”
“I had to admit that in his old-fashioned way O'Hara was still romantic about sex; like Scott Fitzgerald, he thought of it as an upper-class prerogative.”

Source : Alfred Kazin (1982). “Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present”, Horizon Pr
“Take your ***** tampon out and tell me what you have to say.”

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