The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.


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There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale,...
PETER V. BRETT
Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton...
RICHARD V. ALLEN
Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for ...
EUGENE V. DEBS
Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, ...
MARIA V. SNYDER
Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repeti...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molec...
C. V. RAMAN
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by ocean...
C. V. RAMAN
At the same time, the Reagan Administration assured that the main elements of policymaking were in t...
RICHARD V. ALLEN
It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of...
C. V. RAMAN
When you're dealing with a problem as complex as autism, you have to look at it from many differ...
HARVEY V. FINEBERG
In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team ...
RICHARD V. ALLEN
Processes break in two ways. They break because they don't have the right checks and balances an...
MARK V. HURD
I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions tha...
V. E. SCHWAB
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
KING GEORGE V
The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And...
JOHN V. CHENEY
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
EUGENE V. DEBS
Nature is the best Time-keeper.
ANKALA V SUBBARAO
{Debbs' letter to EUGENE V. DEBS We don't take orders from you, Sergeant." Quain said. "Your man tried to assassinate-"
"He isn'...
MARIA V. SNYDER
Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have...
PETER V. BRETT
Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly wit...
EDWARD V. LONG
I'm old, I'm used to crummy service, I'm trained to get crummy service. To me, the fact ...
MARK V. HURD
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
H. V. PROCHNOW
We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.
H. V. ADOLT
When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.
HAROLD V MELCHERT
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps ...
HAROLD V MELCHERT
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
KING GEORGE V
The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
ANKALA V SUBBARAO
With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our ...
ELAINE V. EMANS
Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt fr...
E. V. RIEU