You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
Increase your word power. Words are the raw material of our craft.
Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.