"Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with."

-- Jeffery Deaver

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“I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made.”
“We took a straight course up the great snow ridge.”

Source : Hudson Stuck (2007). “Ascent of Denali”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.
“I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.”
“The thing that is different I think from the years ago, when I was covering the shutdown at the Clinton White House. Then, it was a different political landscape. At that point, a third of House Republicans in the 1995 shutdown were in congressional districts that had been won by Bill Clinton. 7 percent of House Republicans are in congressional districts that were won by Barack Obama shows you how much more partisan the whole country is. A lot of the bridges that used to be used to reach a deal when you needed to reach a compromise have been blown up in the past years.”
“It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.”
“My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language”
“We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to.”
“I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.”

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