"I look on that paper (the Constitution) as the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people."

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I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's the way you get the important characters. Sooner or later every writer worth reading writes a story his mother wouldn't read and having to get that stuff out is part of one's growth as a writer.

— George R. R. Martin