Vaile Quotes

#1. Suspense doesn't always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.

Sandy Vaile

#2. The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery till he detects their relation and sees where they fit, and then his fragments grow at once into a connected picture beneath his hand.

Louis Agassiz

#3. Backstory is like a flavour you can't quite pick, lurking in the layers of a curry. You know it's there and it enhances the flavour, but it's intangible and fleeting. Use it sparingly!

Sandy Vaile

#4. It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.

Charlotte M. Vaile

#5. Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book.

What you need is subtlety.

Sandy Vaile

#6. The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.

Dave Winer

#7. I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord's table.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. The greatest things in life always come with a chance of great loss

Luke Edison

#9. As William Plumer of New Hampshire complained, It is impossible to censure measures without condemning men.

Gordon S. Wood

#10. Sometimes people surprise us. People we believe we know.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. Kings, ministers, aristocrats, the rich in general, kept the people in poverty and subjection; they kept them as they kept dogs, to fight and hunt for their service.

Joseph Conrad

#12. Delayed gratification hints that something terrible is going to happen, and then delays the resolution.

It's that interval between the promise of something awful and it actually happening, where suspense resides.

Sandy Vaile

#13. And you can always, always, give kindness

Anne Frank