Linwood Barclay Quotes

Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.

Linwood Barclay

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Generally, we admire the thing we are not.

Stephen Fry

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In Hollywood, women hate each other.

Sienna Guillory

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I'm trying to do the paleo diet. No carbs.

Robin Wright

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I don't know why you'd want to say your work comes from nature, because art is related to perception, not nature. All abstract artists try to tell you that what they do comes from nature, and I'm always trying to tell you that what I do is completely abstract. We're both saying something we want to be true.

Roy Lichtenstein

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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Rudyard Kipling

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Jewelry is fine on some guys, but it's not for me.

Ross Kemp

MeJewelryFineSomeGuys

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

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My mom. Growing up with her, she always taught us to say whatever. Like, 'You think something, say it. Don't bite your tongue for people.' I think there's a fine line with that, but at the same time, I'm a firm believer in speaking your mind.

Draymond Green

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No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell

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My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.

Anthony Horowitz

PerfectSheJustBooksReadHe

I don't talk about myself in the third person. When I start doing that, you'll know I'm having an out-of-body experience.

Peter Marino

MyselfExperienceStartDoingYou

European countries simply do not have the ideological framework the United States has in the shape of the 'American dream' that has helped to absorb successfully wave after wave of immigration to the States, including Muslim Americans who are well integrated into American society. There is no analogous French dream or German dream.

Peter Bergen

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