Steve Shaw

“Mrs Finch looked affronted. “Marigold Bloom,” she replied. “I may be a brilliant, singular mind managing a secret organization of exceptional women as we fight against the tyranny of an oppressively patriarchal society, but there is always time for fashion.”
― Laura Wood, A Season for Scandal

“A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within sound of the guns.”
― George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

“To stray is human, to saunter is Parisian.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Rook knew the stories were in the experience, not on the Internet. He had a vivid memory and a notes system that delivered him back into the moment every time he pulled the frayed black ribbon of his Moleskine bookmark to part it to a lined page of quotes remembered and details observed. He worked rapidly from beginning to end of the articles as he wrote, drafting at first-impression speed, leaving gaps and reserving the fine work to be done later when he would move once again from front to back. He made numerous passes like that but always continuously, without any backtracking, for a sense of flow. He wrote as if he were the reader. It was also how he kept his writing from becoming too cute, which is to say, about him not the subject. Rook was a journalist but strove to be a storyteller, one who let his subjects speak for themselves and stayed out of their way as much as possible.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat