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I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
Orson Scott Card
No one wants to die. Even people who wanna go to heaven don't wanna die to get there.
Steve Jobs
But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.
Jane Austen
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
Neil Gaiman
I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.
Jodi Picoult
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf
Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.
In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.
Albert Camus
When you are in company, do not forget what you have found out when you were thinking in solitude; and when you are meditating in solitude, think about what you found out by communicating with other people.
Leo Tolstoy
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway
If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.
I am neither a German citizen, nor do I believe in anything that can be described as a Jewish faith. But I am a Jew and glad to belong to the Jewish people, though I do not regard it in any way as chosen.
Albert Einstein
You as stupid as they come. Of course, I say this with your best interests at heart. Most people are stupid. I don't hold it against them.
Writing is total grunt work. A lot of people think it's all about sitting and waiting for the muse. I don't buy that. It's a job. There are days when I really want to write, days when I don't. Every day I sit down and write.
God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp-followers.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Abraham Lincoln