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Author's Favorite Quotes
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly
used up, totally worn out and screaming--WOO HOO what a ride!"
--Unknown

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to
himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
--John Osborne

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a
paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines
and a machine no unnecessary parts.
--William Strunk, Jr.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
--Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
--Cyril Connolly

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's
copy.
--Arthur Evans

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
--Albert Camus
Resources
ghost, mystical, mysticism,
spiritualism, supernatural,
detective, suspense, thriller,
mystery, crime, hurricane, fantasy,
horror, retribution, witch, mafia,
inn, Cocoa, Beach, Ponce, spiritual
Ron Starr is the author of multiple novels ranging from mysteries to human interest stories. Starr’s
mysteries include a nice blend of suspense and history interleaved with supernatural entities, while
his human interest stories address the struggles people face as they cope with life’s challenges.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Starr lives with his wife Doris, and their cats, in Cocoa
Beach, Florida.

The author can be reached via E-mail at ron@quillandpen.com

QuillandPen.Com
O nature's noblest gift -- my grey goose-quill!
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men!
Lord Byron
(1788-1824)