"When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else."

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Carl Hiaasen

#Trying Quotes #Nonfiction Quotes #Down And Quotes

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.”
“I asked Shia: who is the guy that terrifies you the most? And he said Mads. So it was somebody we both really wanted to work with. He's intimidating, but has a really big heart and he's sexy. He's got this sexiness, even guys fall for him. He just penetrates everything-not literally. So we needed a brokenhearted thug that could really give us the heartache. And going between the violence and viciousness and the complete softness without making it too much. A lot of those characters can go into a charade, and I needed it to be genuine heartbrokenness and that's what he's great at doing.”
“It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.”
“We all want to be a little glamorous, a little playful and a little mischievous at times.”
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
“My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.”

Source : "My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop" by Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.
“Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.”
“The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.”

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