"It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it."

-- Piers Anthony

#Writing Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.”
“You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.55, Univ of California Press
“I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.”
“Han?” “Yeah, sweetie.” “How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?” “I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.” “I’ll consider that.”
“But you must still know to respect other people's faith.' 'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.' 'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.' 'In which case I believe in Jedi”

Source : Michael Arditti (2009). “The Enemy of the Good”, Arcadia Books
“I'm here to impress only one man. He don't live here with us. He's on top. So that's all I'm concerned about. My work is not for the public or for man to view or make judgment on me, I work for one person ...”
“In the end, the work of diplomats continues even while others fight. So, it's not necessarily true that everyone needs to march.”

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