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Justice is merely incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice
Law
Law And Order
Merely
Order
Incidental
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
Ashwin Sanghi
Myself
Good
Writing
Words
Important
Research
Books
Spinning
Objective
More
Writer
Primary
Yarn
Than
Goes
Story
Which
Storyteller
Much
View
Use
Incidental
Each
Hence
Each One
Extensive
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
Ashwin Sanghi
Conflict
Events
Will
Resolved
Characters
How
Provide
Incidental
Series
Start
Among this country's enduring myths is that success is virtuous, while the wealth by which we measure success is incidental. We tell ourselves that money cannot buy happiness, but what is incontrovertible is that money buys stuff, and if stuff makes you happy, well, complete the syllogism.
Rumaan Alam
Happiness
Success
Buy
You
Happy
Money
Wealth
Country
Complete
Virtuous
Ourselves
Tell
Myths
Stuff
Well
Makes
Enduring
Cannot
Which
While
Success Is
Measure
Incidental
Among
Incontrovertible
Buys
I actually do bits of my writing in sort of incidental spaces - when I'm traveling on the Tube or on a bus. More often than not, it's a reaction to how you feel about something, and if you're sitting down and concentrating on, 'I must write something,' then you can't have a truthful reaction.
Johnny Flynn
You
Writing
Down
Bits
Must
About
Something
More
Write
Feel
Concentrating
Reaction
Sort
How
Truthful
Than
Tube
Sitting
Often
Spaces
Bus
Then
Incidental
Traveling
Actually
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.
Whittaker Chambers
Man
Witness
Something
Only
Fact
He
Primarily
Against
Incidental
Drawing a good picture is like telling a really good lie - the key is in the incidental detail.
Shaun Tan
Good
Lie
Key
Picture
Drawing
Telling
Detail
Good Picture
Like
Really
Incidental
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details.
Shaun Tan
Truth
World
Painting
Adds
Those
Detail
Details
Runs
Something
Imperfection
Alongside
Also
Makes
Real
False
Lots
Unexpected
Fiction
The Real World
Real World
Convincing
Incidental
Element