Amukamara No Hurdle Quotes & Sayings

One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier. — Yiyun Li

Dads. Do you honestly expect anybody to believe that you can't find 20 minutes to step away from your computer or turn off the television to play with your child? It has to happen every single day. Do you not understand that children will hinge their entire facet of trust on whether or not their dad plays with them and how involved he is when he plays with them? Do you know the damage you do by not playing with your children every day? — Dan Pearce

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. — Alexander Pope

When there is little you can do, you do what you can. — Padma Lakshmi

A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. — Charles Kettering

Scrooge never painted out Old Marley's name. There it stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door: Scrooge — Charles Dickens

Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman — David Brin

I hate pulling out ... I mean, I'm really bad at the whole parking thing ... — Josh Stern

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect. — Hilary Mantel