Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

No ninjas! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without any ninjas! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your safety.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.