#usual

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#beasts #big #big surprise #books #end

After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#after #convinced #give #give me #got

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves. ↗

— Maria Edgeworth

#class #considered #creature #harmless #hurt

I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I'd bring her flowers and candy. ↗

— Zac Efron

#candy #day #did #flowers #friends

We usually surprised everyone, and still do, as we keep the craziness onstage. ↗

— John Gallagher

#everyone #keep #onstage #still #surprised

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own. ↗

— Carl Barks

#because #better #book #cover #covers

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#am #fan #flattering #honor #i

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#effectively #enormity #finality #less #more

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#detach #new #old #old thing #surrounds

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#books #character #character development #development #harder