David Morrell Quotes
I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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My life is studded with a series of coincidences.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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One of the reasons I love devils so much is not based in my faith, but because as a kid, I grew up loving heavy metal and horror movies, and the devil is such a huge presence in both.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.' But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.
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I never go wild with nails.
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Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
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I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.
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I can honestly say I had the time of my life in London. I don't regret one part of it, and I have never wanted the moment to end.
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I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
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The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.
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I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.
