“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.” WayWantGivingWritingLittlesMomentsTogetherCoursesInterestingLaughingPiecesMysteryStreetsReaderPagesSurpriseInsightObservationOne WayPlotTendernessPayoff Author:Christopher Bollen
“I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksKindDifferentMatterMomentsImagineNo Matter WhatOne WayAnother WayDifferent Life Author:Kristen Wiig
“Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.” WayCountrySometimesMomentsCoursesFateHistoricalOne Way Author:Vladimir Voinovich
“Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.” PeopleIfsWayMomentsLawHumanityFoundJusticeCommonWatchesCasesGoneJudgingJudgmentEvidenceCourtBoxesCriticalRationalOne WayAgain And AgainAccusedJuryBargainsCommon LawJurorsCritical Moments Author:E. P. Thompson
“I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced, coherent disharmony. That's one way to say it. And where if I keep working on it, to discover and struggle with new problems, I'll obliterate the ones I was working on. I could keep working on it, but it'd become something different. And I value what's here, at the moment.” IfsThinkingWayFeelsDifferentDoneMomentsProblemValuesStruggleHappeningsFinishedOne WayWorking ItBalancedDisharmony Author:Jessica Stockholder