Leigh Michaels Quotes

If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.

Leigh Michaels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 27, 1954

Topics

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A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Jerzy Kosinski

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I want people to have a free and open voice.

Andrew Breitbart

PeopleFreeVoiceWantOpen

I have to confess to not being a great forward planner. I'm the kind of person who regularly arranges to have dinner with five different people on the same night.

John Niven

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The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

Robert Kennedy

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I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

Maury Povich

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It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having. And sleep almost divorces that emotional, bitter rind from the memory experiences that we've had during the day.

Matthew Walker

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I want to be with people I care about and hang out with my dogs.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

Jeff Ament

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I came from a hospitality background and saw that 80 percent of seats in cars weren't occupied most of the time.

John Zimmer

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I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds.

Steve Erickson

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It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

Soledad O'Brien

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As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.

Sonny Mehta

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