Shinestythreads Quotes & Sayings

Apparently the part of the brain that identified things as funny kept running as a background process even when its contributions were useless. — Neal Stephenson

I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.
In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This ... and this ... and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home. — Stephen King

You can't be impatient about growth, because that's what leads people to make mistakes. — Jerry Della Femina

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. — Alan Furst

B. Anthony once said that woman must not depend on the protection of man, but be taught to protect herself." "I — Abigail Keam

How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf paid only 25% of his earnings to his feudal lord. How much income tax do you pay?) Don't kid yourselves, we're slaves. Slaves with weekends off. — Kenneth W. Royce

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind. — Agnes Repplier