Chevy Stevens famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

That first shrink I saw when I got back to Clayton Falls told me no one is a lost cause, but I think thatâ€™s bullshit. I think people can be so crushed, so broken, that theyâ€™ll never be anything more than a fragment of a whole person.
-- Chevy Stevens

#Fall #Thinking #People
My [story] outlines are usually about 5-6 pages long. I'm essentially telling myself the story in short form. I try to make it clear who the major characters are, what they want, and what obstacles they face.
-- Chevy Stevens

#Character #Long #Trying
Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.
-- Chevy Stevens

#Book #Character #Coping Mechanisms
I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.
-- Chevy Stevens

#Book #Writing #Cutting
Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn!
-- Chevy Stevens

#Writing #Groups #Feedback

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. The British regulars who made the retreat from Mons, beginning August 24, 1914.
I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.
O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Think it over, think it under.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.

Chevy Stevens famous quotes

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