“If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap” IfsWritingMatterStoriesWould BeTodayFallHousePayAttentionNovelAliveBrilliantAgentsPay AttentionShootingLengthCopiesShort StoryCrapYellingHeroinLive For TodayMoronSlappingAllan Poe Author:Dean Koontz
“I am to consider the many advantages arising from a frequent use of oaths, curses, and imprecations. In the first place, this genteel accomplishment is a wonderful help to discourse; as it supplies the want of good sense, learning, and eloquence. The illiterate and stupid, by the help of oaths, become orators; and he, whose wretched intellects would not permit him to utter a coherent sentence, by this easy practice, excites the laughter, and fixes the attention, of a brilliant and joyous circle.” WantFirstsHelpingUseEasyAttentionPracticeWonderfulStupidLaughterAdvantageIntellectSentencesBrilliantCirclesCurseAccomplishmentPermitDiscourseWretchedJoyousOathEloquenceGood SenseSuppliesIlliterateSwearingOrators Author:Mary Collyer
“I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.” SaidFactsResultsAttentionTalkingPlansConversationPaidBrilliantThey SaidRemarksIncessantly Book:Letters of Susan Hale Source: Letters of Susan Hale
“We are saddened to hear of the untimely death of Christian Audigier. It is a sad end to a brilliant marketer; his incredible energy and vision brought my artwork to global attention.” EndsChristianEnergyAttentionVisionIncrediblesBrilliantArtworkMarketersSaddenedUntimely Death Author:Don Ed Hardy