"Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayÂ—all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is goingÂ—and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success."

-- Jeff Abbott

#Drama Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.”
“One more thing: don't spend too much time merely reading. The best part of this work is the play, so play and enjoy!”

Source : Preface to his book "Oriental Adventures", 1985.
“When the Chinese government tells its citizens that they can worship in a certain building on a certain day, but once they leave that building they must bow to the secular orthodoxy of the state, you have a cynical lie at work. Theyâ€™ve substituted a toothless â€˜freedom of worshipâ€™ for â€˜freedom of religionâ€™.”

Source : "Raising Good Men". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. May 4, 2013.
“But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.”
“Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.”
“French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.”
“I'm gonna do clothes, but stuff that kids can afford. I want to get into the high fashion world very soon, but the stuff I want to start out with is the small stuff, for the kids, that anybody can afford the Nikes, or the Jordans, Or let's say they can't afford the big brand name clothes, so I would make a lower end line but still high-quality.”
“I think coercive taxation is theft, and government has a moral duty to keep it to a minimum.”

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