"Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time."

-- Chuck Wendig

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Snapshots Quotes

“Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.”

Source : Jay McInerney (2009). “How It Ended”, p.28, Vintage
“It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.”
“Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.”
“You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.”
“I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.”
“Approval isnâ€™t necessary. Itâ€™s nice when you get it, but itâ€™s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if Iâ€™d have listened to approval, Iâ€™d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if thereâ€™s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.”
“Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence. Some of the various densities of the aether have only a partial or probablistic differentiation into existence, and are somewhat indeterminate in space and time. In the same way that mass exists as a curvature in space-time, extending with a gradually diminishing force to infinity that we recognize as gravity, so do all events, particularly events involving the human mind, send ripples through all creation.”
“I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like every song on the radio.”

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