Blending consensus historical events and personages with imaginary occult forces is a strong recipe for counterfactual storytelling goodness that combines the best of two worlds: resonant history with wild-eyed fantasy.
One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events.
I don't believe that people die and come back as spirits, but I think there might be some unexplained events.
When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.
If you want to be happy, be wary of focusing on past events and do your best to live in the present.
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett
When facing terrorism, especially in the wake of awful events, there is a tendency to despair, to see in the battle a problem without a solution.
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans.
I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I was a brunette: they went nuts. Even at fan events, they were rude to me.
Streams of consequence flow from every action, and from every conflict there are two paths by which events may go.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way.
