"There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them."

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Source : David Morrell “The Successful Novelist”, David Morrell

David Morrell

#Fiction Quotes #Type Quotes

“When I started out playing chess as a kid I thought I should be world champion. As a kid you have no idea what that means and you only sort of picture it. It is hard to imagine that I waited all those years and it happened in a late stage of my career.”
“My life in general, orderly or not, it allows me more freedom in my own writing. Sometimes I wonder, though - I have friends that sit around and just write all day. And I think it's the coolest thing.”
“If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure.”
“What had set the fae world off? I`d never seen one. Now you couldn`t throw a trowel without hitting a fairy.”
“South Carolina is a great place to be from.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tim Scott from Aug 09, 2014
“I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book”
“Abstruse and mystic thoughts you must express With painful care, but seeming easiness; For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.”

Source : "An Essay on Translated Verse" by Wentworth Dillon, line 216, 1684.
“Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.”

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