Marcus Sedgwick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Purpose #Stories #Path
If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Life #Betrayal #Perfection
I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Girl #Mean #Men
There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Life #Thinking #Two
If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Glad
There never was a story that was happy through and through.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Stories
Eric Seven does not believe in love at first sight. He corrects himself. Even in that moment, the moment that it happens, he fees his journalistâ€™s brain make a correction, rubbing out a long-held belief, writing a new one in its place. He did not believe in love at first sight. He thinks he might do so now.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Believe #Writing #Thinking
And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Book #Reading #Mean
Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.
-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Hero #Character #Bridges

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.
If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
I love love stories, no matter how dark.
I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Marcus Sedgwick famous quotes

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