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Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.


David S. Goyer

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S. I. HAYAKAWA Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, an...
S. I. HAYAKAWA In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will...
S. I. HAYAKAWA So I will say it with relish. Give me a hamburger but hold the lawsuit.
S. I. HAYAKAWA When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dat...
S. E. HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un...
S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon...
S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o...
S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina...
S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r...
S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma....
S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.
S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it.
S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer...
S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.
S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i...
S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t...
S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi...
S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-...
S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a...
S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN