Critical Research Failure/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


"I was there when he shot Burt Reynolds!"
Larry Lovage, on Willie Nelson in Leisure Suit Larry
"The occasional mistake is one thing. Consistent and complete lack of research is another. And for the love of God, authors, is it that difficult to hand your manuscript to a native speaker of the foreign tongue you're attempting to mangle and ask them "Look, would somebody actually say something like this in your language, or did I just inadvertently reveal my hero's latent homosexual tendencies by having him address the heroine by the masculine form of 'my darling' throughout the book?"

Triple H: Sixty six percent, that's almost better than a half chance for a DX victory!

Shawn Michaels: Seventy percent of statistics are wrong, eighty percent of the time.