"So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Daniel Kehlmann

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Mean Quotes

“I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.”
“The silent painting speaks on the walls and does much good.”
“I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.”
“The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.”

Source : "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004.
“With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.”

Source : Sir Thomas Malory “Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
“If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I haveto storm your works you may expect no quarter.”

Source : Thomas Jordan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, J P. Pryor (1868). “The campaigns of lieut.-gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's cavalry, by T. Jordan and J.P. Pryor”, p.411
“I am talking about misery and all of its implications.”
“The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.”

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