"Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best."

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Linwood Barclay

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“Responsibility for the creation of the good world in which the good life may be realized, which the frustrated ages of the past loaded upon the gods, is now being assumed by man. The ideal of this modern drift is the realization of the full joy in living.”
“Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who wonâ€™t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It canâ€™t help but be that. But more importantly, if youâ€™re honest about who you are, youâ€™ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope.”

Source : "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". Speech for BAFTA, www.bafta.org. 30 September 2011.
“That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.”
“As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things wont work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.”
“The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.”
“I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”
“It's an honor to support such a worthy program.TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.”

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