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“What’s more interesting are the dynamics between people that involve hypocrisy or ignoring each other. That’s what I want to write about. I like to make people uncomfortable because it’s something we should be uncomfortable about.” ~ George Pelecanos

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My fiction is almost always inspired by a character’s need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

~ Robert Crais

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“If you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.” ~ John Green

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“I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, then it’s already been covered by the media, and if it’s not good enough, why would I want to bother with it?”

~ Ed McBain

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“When I write I pretend I’m telling a story to someone in the room and I don’t want them to get up until I’m finished.” ~ James Patterson

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“Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.” ~ Tom Clancy

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“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”

~ Zane Grey

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“A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.”  

~Jorge Luis Borges

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“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

~ Louis L’Amour

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“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.” ~ Ray Bradbury

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