Eye Salve Revelations Quotes

#1. Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think a character like so-and-so would say.' You have to reproduce it in the way your literary premises dictate.

Ayn Rand

#2. I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

Kevin J. Anderson

#3. You can't ascribe great cosmic significance to a simple earthly event. Coincidence. That's all anything ever is. Nothing more than coincidence.

Scott Neustadter

#4. Never break what you have in hand because you found a better one

S.E. Sever

#5. I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

Don DeLillo

#6. Silos can't interoperate unless the technology does.

Carly Fiorina

#7. If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?

T.C. Boyle

#8. An infamous political prison required a revolution as much as a revolution required an infamous political prison.

Tom Rob Smith

#9. There can be no poetry after Auschwitz.

Theodor Adorno