"Authors have to write for their characters, for who they are, that's the strength of books. Don't worry about censors. Just write the story you need to tell and the rewards will come."

-- Ellen Hopkins

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“Mercy - whatever people need from God.”
“In my view, madness is a place. You go. You come back. And I think we all take turns being the mental patient. Without a touch of crazy, literature can be a desolate place. In the current climate of careful speech, even fearful speech, smoke-free film scripts, thought-free songs, and child-proof locks on American minds, the oft-repeated lament of the arts is "Where have all those wonderful madmen gone?"”
“A writer writes what other people only think.”

Source : Sol Stein (2014). “How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them”, p.87, St. Martin's Press
“No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a chance to fight for God and country.”
“Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.”
“Transform our way of perceiving things, we transform the quality of our lives.”

Source : Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord”
“RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?”

Source : "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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