Two men fought for the sake of a single woman. Though indeed foolish, it was a tale as old as time. - Dies Irae, Interview with Kaziklu Bey

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep. - Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Perfect people are boring. Perfect people are obnoxious because they're better than us. Perfect people are, above all, too good to be true. - Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman

It was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, “tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,” but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson. - Drew Goddard

If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three. - Laurence J. Peter

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they’ve all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions. Every villain is a hero in his own mind. - Tom Hiddleston

Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke. - Joss Whedon

I love the adventure of telling all types of stories and trying to conquer each one - Jon M. Chu

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. - John Green

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. - Alfred Hitchcock

The art of prophecy is very difficult especially with respect to the future. - Mark Twain

You should write the fast stuff slow and the slow stuff fast. - Lee Child

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. - Marian Keyes

Every book, ever volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. - Daniel HandlerI believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. - Stephen King

I think new authors are too worried that it has all been said before. Sure it has, but not by you. - Asha Dornfest

Books have a publishing standard, and every indie author is responsible to their readers in making sure those standards are met or exceeded. - Eeva Lancaster

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody. - Oscar Wilde

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham