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I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.


Ving Rhames
Tags: Never Got Saw
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
Tags: Good About Up
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
Geoff Dyer
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I say my greatest strength is my speed, and I think that I could use some work on my concentration.


Jacoby Jones
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Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.


David A. Adler
Tags: Me Being Come
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch
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Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.


Cecil Beaton
Tags: World Being First
Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
Jack Carroll
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Wilfrid Laurier
Tags: Time Nature You
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.


J. B. Priestley
Tags: Age Our Greatest
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.


Carlos Fuentes
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
Andrea Bocelli
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Tags: Family Up Country
There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.
Victoria Strauss
Tags: Lot How Much
I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.
Lynn Coady
Tags: You Think I Think
But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
David Cronenberg
Tags: Movies You Me
The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.
George R. R. Martin
Tags: Out Then Ever
I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
Gail Collins
Tags: Who Had Than
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All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.


Elaine Stritch
Tags: Go Writing Stuff
You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.
F. Sionil Jose
Tags: You Just Because