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As for what's the most challenging aspect of teaching, it's convincing younger writers of the importance of reading widely and passionately.

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.

Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize - and sometimes you have to cauterize - the ones who really are against change. They're the kind of person who, if you tell them it's raining outside, they'll fight you tooth and nail.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.

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