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Probably the best way to desc...

Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Discipline means looking beyo...

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Plot is very important to me,...

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

The military offered the oppo...

The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Don't get me wrong, God Bless...

Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

My greatest accomplishment is...

My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

I was raised in farm and ranc...

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

So much of my self worth was ...

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

My greatest accomplishment is ...

My greatest accomplishment is succeeding in life, and I owe that to my family and twenty years in the military. I don't regret leaving the farm and ranch for the Army. Although I may have been a disappointment to my father, I achieved more than he could ever dream of in his short life.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Public schools are government-...

Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one of the purest examples of socialism existing in America.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Don't get me wrong, God Bless ...

Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

The military offered the oppor...

The military offered the opportunity to see the world, and meet other people and learn new customs. Plus, the Army taught soldiers discipline. The life I experienced in the service was an education I could never have obtained as a cowboy.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

I was raised in farm and ranch...

I was raised in farm and ranch communities, and my dad wanted me to be a cowboy like him, but I saw how he struggled in life and wanted more than that.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Probably the best way to descr...

Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to 'purple prose', which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Plot is very important to me, ...

Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

So much of my self worth was t...

So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Learning is a process whereby ...

Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

Discipline means looking beyon...

Discipline means looking beyond the appearance, beyond that which is visible and acknowledging one Infinite Cause.

Tom Johnson 10 quotes

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