"If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering."

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Source : Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.89, W. W. Norton & Company

#Atmosphere Quotes #Pages Quotes #Cold Quotes

“Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.”
“As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'”
“This is Buffalo, New York. It's like. Scranton without the charm.”
“I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.”

Source : "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”
“Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.”
“The question is, what are appropriate words and inappropriate words for network television, and what's the context? Was this appropriate in this context? Or are you creatively trying to find a way to use that word on the air?”
“If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.”

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