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“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”
Source : James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.31, Macmillan
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“I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.”
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“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.”
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“I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going to be the same thing.”
Source : "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Kiera Aaron, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012. 
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“Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would argue - it's because our "voicier" writers hew so closely to one given set of dictional tics that we as readers can't read the books all the way through in a single sitting, because if we did, the stories and their narrators would all start to bleed together.”
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“Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.”
Source : "The great Tiananmen taboo" by Ma Jian, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2009.
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“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.”
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“Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.”
