#th

Our generals talk a good game about taking care of their grunts, and the majority of our Beltway politicians bay with moralistic fervor about how they, too, support the troops. ↗

— David Hackworth

#bay #beltway #care #fervor #game

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#books #even #general #i #i think

Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away. ↗

— David Hackworth

#away #been #beirut #both #cut

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people. ↗

— David Hackworth

#american people #commitment #everyday #exists #happen

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us. ↗

— David Hackworth

#born-again #convert #days #east #either

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#convinced #everybody #fact #little #opposite

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#chapter #hate #heard #i #last

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#antibiotics #city #greatest #history #i

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#again #agent #anywhere #draft #editor

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#back #bad #bad stuff #better #came