“For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.”
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“It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.”
“My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.”
“The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.”
“Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.”
“The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.”
“I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.”
“I like my life alone.”
“By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.”
“Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.”
“Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
“He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.”
“The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.”
“Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.”
“By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.”
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”
“You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.”
“Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone.”
“You watch a hockey game, and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone, just following it with their eyes.”
“I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?”
“I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.”
“Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.”
“I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.”
“It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.”