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“The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.”

Writing Persons Character Common Novel Virtue Active Good Person Thrillers Predatory

Author:Thomas Perry

“Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.”

Writing Virtue Distinction Originality Publishers Anathema

Book:The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

Source: The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World

“It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.”

Writing Art Seems Culture Virtue Environment Slips

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.”

Writing Culture Virtue

Author:Maureen Corrigan

“There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other.”

Thinking Writing Practice Virtue Vices Vice And Virtue

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.”