Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're ­Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.


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My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen ho...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and ...
KAWHI LEONARD
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands ou...
LEONARD COHEN
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show...
LEONARD WOODCOCK
If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the...
LEONARD LAUDER
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me...
LEONARD COHEN
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our...
LEONARD MLODINOW
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY
Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des...
LEONARD COHEN
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t...
LEONARD COHEN
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
LEONARD COHEN
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're ...
LEONARD COHEN
Music is the emotional life of most people.
LEONARD COHEN
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
JOHN LEONARD
As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepa...
LEONARD BOSWELL
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments ...
LEONARD COHEN
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
LEONARD COHEN
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and ...
LEONARD BOSWELL
Evolution is among the most well-established theories in the scientific community. To doubt it sound...
LEONARD MLODINOW
I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot...
LEONARD COHEN
I think it's my adventure, my trip, my journey, and I guess my attitude is, let the chips fall w...
LEONARD NIMOY
I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.
LEONARD SLATKIN
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, gr...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...
LEONARD COHEN
Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin m...
LEONARD MALTIN
The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control ...
LEONARD BOSWELL
Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the ex...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my e...
LEONARD COHEN
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
LEONARD MALTIN
On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figur...
LEONARD SLATKIN
You can't serve up hearts like cherries jubilee.
LEONARD BAILEY
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added...
LEONARD NIMOY
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chor...
LEONARD COHEN
We're the underdogs and that's a good position to be in.
AMY LEONARD
They had a lot of confidence coming in and they came in on a streak. A lot of people didn't give us ...
AMY LEONARD
We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to...
AMY LEONARD
She spent a lot of her own time working individually on her skills, her footwork, getting to the bas...
AMY LEONARD