I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily, which may go along with my not having much of an attention span. But extremely clever chi-chi writing, or just plain tomfoolery writing, puts me to sleep. Writers don't need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block. At the risk of appearing foolish, a writer sometimes needs to be able to just stand and gape at this or that thing- a sunset or an old shoe- in absolute and simple amazement.
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Dare!
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Voice your opinions
Voice your thoughts
Voice your displeasure
Voice your feelings
Voice ... APURVA GAGLANI Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te... APURVA GAGLANI The staircase is a firm footing, the lift is a hanging platform. Wonder why so many people prefer th... APURVA GAGLANI Are you climbing a mountain, or digging a hole. KENT POLLON For a childless couple who follow truth and are honest they are very few options to get a baby.
1 Th... APURVA GAGLANI We are—or were —Divinities, Shara Komayd: we drew power from the hearts and minds and beli... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT People often extending their support to a person forms a comprehensive report about his or her level... ANUJ SOMANY A learned person underrates own intelligence & overvalues others importance, so remains in public la... ANUJ SOMANY The fact is that no one is hated openly so much as one who is true to oneself consistently and no on... ANUJ SOMANY There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re... ANUJ SOMANY A wise does not have necessarily nice words but always good in intention; a wicked may have regularl... ANUJ SOMANY BETTER to be loved by just one person who is truly the BEST to trust than being mischievously liked ... ANUJ SOMANY It is always difficult for an emotional person to choose an option between the job and the business ... ANUJ SOMANY A person who is humanitarian by soul has a great scope of becoming a true comedian, but let remember... ANUJ SOMANY Live or die, don't hang in between. NEHA KOTHARI The battle between good and evil is actually the battle of occupying either more light or more shado... APURVA GAGLANI It is so common amongst the common people of an ordinary mind to find own selfish desire as dream an... ANUJ SOMANY A good person has voice gives voice. A bad person has noise makes noise APURVA GAGLANI Did you know that at one time trick-or-treating was stopped? It's true. During World War II children... LINDA BOZZO Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form... FOREST WHITAKER
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RAYMOND HOLLIWELL What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were d... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a... RAYMOND CHANDLER Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writ... RAYMOND CHANDLER God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ... RAYMOND HOLLIWELL The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a... RAYMOND CHANDLER The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m... RAYMOND CHANDLER A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. RAYMOND CHANDLER She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. RAYMOND CHANDLER In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod... RAYMOND CHANDLER So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive... RAYMOND CHANDLER Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe... RAYMOND CHANDLER The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas. RAYMOND CHANDLER The most prepared are the most dedicated. RAYMOND BERRY The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the... RAYMOND CHANDLER If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an... RAYMOND CHANDLER Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis... RAYMOND CHANDLER That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He... RAYMOND CHANDLER They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel... RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli... RAYMOND CHANDLER The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake... RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid..... RAYMOND CHANDLER There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th... RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the... RAYMOND CHANDLER The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle... RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ... RAYMOND CHANDLER The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi... RAYMOND CHANDLER I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ... RAYMOND CHANDLER Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a... RAYMOND CHANDLER He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. RAYMOND CHANDLER Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t... RAYMOND CHANDLER It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a... RAYMOND CHANDLER