Robert Olen Butler famous quotes
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Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.
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Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.
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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
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We are the yearning creatures of this planet.
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In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.
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All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
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The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
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The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.
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Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.
-- Robert Olen Butler
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A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
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Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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Whatever obstacles you face, remember you can get through anything if you want to badly enough.
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The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.
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Ultimately, leadership is about the strength of one's convictions, the ability to endure the punches, and the energy to promote an idea. And I have found that those who do achieve peace never acquiesce to obstacles, especially those constructed of bigotry, intolerance, and inflexible tradition.
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If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.
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Great obstacles make great leaders.
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