The glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters. - Tony Hoagland

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. - Terry Pratchett

I must be cruel, only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - William Shakespeare

The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde

Whatever these forces are that make people do dumb things, they are powerful, they are often invisible, and they lurk even in the best of environments. - Ed Catmull

The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story. - Bruce Feiler

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. - Orson Scott Card

Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost. - Thomas Bernhard