I’ve heard his stuff is off-genre, and he can’t even get an agent. One rejection said: “Make up your mind, Will. You can’t be writing thrillers one day and sappy romances the next. Readers want to know what to expect. Pick a genre and stick with it, fergodsake. Then maybe I can do something for you.”
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Bridget McKenna on Shakespeare
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San Martín on victory
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Si hay victoria en vencer al enemigo, la hay más cuando el hombre se vence a si mismo.
[If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself.]
—José de San Martín
Quoted in the original, because the Spanish has a poetic grace and snap and style that does not come through in the translation. But then, generals and poets have more in common than the poets would care to admit.
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