Triggers Book Quotes & Sayings

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week. — Chuck Schumer

It doesn't matter where I am in this world, there's nothing else I'd rather see. Just you. — Jay McLean

Love is an undulating energy that moves through you, within you, and radiates out of you, and changes everything. — Bartholomaus

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot. — Jonathan Carroll

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back. — Cecily Brown

The experience of surprise is a sign of one's readiness to grow. — Sidney Jourard

I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it. — David Morrell

Irene Diamond's Fertile Ground is a provocative book. It stirs me to vigorous assent. It also triggers wide-eyed disbelief ... As it prods me to explosions of disagreement, it also provokes useful thought. — Janet Lembke

The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the page are merely the means to that end, a think-by-numbers set, a bottled daydream. The book, therefore, is only finished when someone reads it. - Sidelines — Lois McMaster Bujold