"Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of languageâ€”a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writerâ€™s decisions."

-- Noy Holland

#Character Quotes #Errors Quotes #Decision Quotes

“Life without music is unthinkable.”
“I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.”
“I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years of coming to the US that I started writing in English, although purely for myself, not trying to get it published. Living in America, I was constantly in touch with English, and Ukrainian was for me a private language.”
“For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.”
“One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.”
“The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style.”
“Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.”
“Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.”

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