"A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter."

-- James M. Cain

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“To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.”
“Love me. Be with me." "That's enough?" "That's plenty.”

Source : Susan Mallery (2011). “Only His”, p.208, Harlequin
“I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.”
“We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.”
“The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.”
“Looking for me, Angel?”
“All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.”

Source : Jesse Helms (1984). “"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Words of Senator No”, Carolina Indepnt Publication Corporation
“What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.”

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