Stergiakis Quotes & Sayings

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you'll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you'll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you'll see stuff that's long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. — Dan Alatorre

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ... — Gary North

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands ... It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. — Jean M. Auel

Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war. — Paul Reps

Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs. — John Thune

Yet how bored they both looked, and how wearily Ethel regarded Jim sometimes, as if she wondered why she had trained the vines of her affection on such a wind-shaken poplar. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was always interested in the man of the moment - and there were so many such moments. — Evelyn Keyes

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. — Albert Camus

The camera implies meaning where no meaning exists. I had not celebrated that brother and sister. I had mocked them. I had exploited their sorrow. I had tried to make them part of a hopeful message on the state of the Union. To be black is to be the actor. To be white is to be the critic. — Don DeLillo