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“The line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in.”
Source : Elmore Leonard (2007). “Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing”, William Morrow
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“A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.”
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“We must create a [economic] crisis in order to ensure that there is no alternative to a smaller government.”
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“I'm so glad I didn't become a doctor, because I do more than any doctor can do. I am an administrator, a CEO, doctor, psychiatrist, an activist, a campaign funder. I think I did well.”
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“I still love to go back to Mitchell [his home town] and wander up and down those streets. It just kind of reassures me again that there is a place that I know thoroughly, where the roots are deep. Everything had a place, a specific definition.”
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“I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?”
Source : "Hitler's Table Talk". Die Bormann Vermerke: Transcripts of Hitler's conversations (5 July 1941 - 30 November 1944), made under the supervision of Martin Bormann, 1953.
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“What can you expect from me in the next five years? Well... I'll get older”
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“The individual's habits of thought make an organic complex, the trend of which is necessarily in the direction of serviceability to the life process. When it is attempted to assimilate systematic waste or futility, as an end in life, into this organic complex, there presently supervenes a revulsion.”
Source : Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.168, Courier Corporation
