Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
I have that special sort of novelist body of knowledge which is extraordinarily wide and very, very shallow. So I can usually answer the questions on 'Jeopardy,' but never the bonus question.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.
I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.
We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.
Never get tired of being your true original self. You are too special to be anything other than a reflection of your true identity.
Fall in love with your uniqueness because that's what makes your presence on earth a very special one.
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.
Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.
