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66 voters
Pat Cummings
http://drpatreads.blogspot.com/
Biology, they said. You can postpone it, but you can’t prevent it. She’d watched the Olympics on television that summer, months ago, now, and had been struck by how young the gymnasts were.
“Greetings, Commissioner Nasdaq,” replied the terminal. “Shall we play a game? A good game of chess perhaps? Or maybe a simulation of global thermonuclear war?”
― Forbidden Thoughts
― Forbidden Thoughts
“I’d much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“In comparing Belle to Jack the Ripper as a murderer driven by bloodlust and employing a signature MO, this anonymous expert accurately identified her as the type of homicidal maniac for which no name had yet been coined: what a later age would call a serial killer.”
― Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
― Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
“It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.”
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
― Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
“I was too rich to get honesty and too poor to change the order of the Roman world.”
― The Far Arena
― The Far Arena
Pat Cummings’s 2025 Year in Books
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