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Nice writing isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to have smooth and pretty language. You have to surprise the reader frequently, you can’t just be nice all the time. Provoke the reader. Astonish the reader. Writing that has no surprises is as bland as oatmeal. Surprise the reader with the unexpected verb or adjective. Use one startling adjective per page (Surprise Quotes)
If there’s one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me (Surprise Quotes)
I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go (Surprise Quotes)
The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that’s when they are really making some progress (Surprise Quotes)
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors (Surprise Quotes)
When I was 4 years old... I dreamt that I’d been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf’s stomach and not in heaven (Surprise Quotes)
In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none (Surprise Quotes)
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open (Surprise Quotes)
Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me (Surprise Quotes)
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn’t funny. It’s a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it’s not a surprise anymore (Surprise Quotes)
No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words (Surprise Quotes)
Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you (Surprise Quotes)
Good literature erects bridges between different peoples, and by having us enjoy, suffer, or feel surprise, unites us beneath the languages, beliefs, habits, customs, and prejudices that separate us (Surprise Quotes)
The future is bound to surprise us, but we don’t have to be dumbfounded (Surprise Quotes)
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves (Surprise Quotes)
It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again. (Surprise Quotes)
There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise (Surprise Quotes)
I’m always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not otherwise read - I enjoy the surprise myself when others do this to me. (Surprise Quotes)
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise (Surprise Quotes)
Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth (Surprise Quotes)
... paint in blue and black...sometimes gray - the colors of night - occasionally I surprise you with a mustard yellow, but then, I am a poet ... (Surprise Quotes)
To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, surprise is the optimistic solution (Surprise Quotes)
Given what the media have put the country through this past decade, it must come as a surprise to most Americans that the press has a code of ethics. (Surprise Quotes)
It’s no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair. (Surprise Quotes)
History , as it comes into our daily lives, is charged with surprise and shock (Surprise Quotes)
Always do what’s right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest. (Surprise Quotes)
Education does loads of things for girls that won’t surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone. (Surprise Quotes)
Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise (Surprise Quotes)
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We’re not losers. (Surprise Quotes)
Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them. (Surprise Quotes)