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The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.

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Readers, transformed by film and TV, are used to seeing stories. The reading experience. . . is increasingly visual.

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In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

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To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive.

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The biggest difference between a writer and a would-be writer is their attitude toward rewriting. . . . Unwillingness to revise usually signals an amateur.

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Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension and not dispel it immediately.

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A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets.

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