"The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time."

-- Michael Connelly

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The seeds of great victory lie in minor triumphs.”
“I don't belong to any denomination or religion, I just belong to God.”
“Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.
“Naturally, I now love Jesus very much. Yes, I love him so damn much that I would like to crucify him all over again!”
“I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not.”
“Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.”

Source : "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.
“Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.”

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