"I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Edan Lepucki

#Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes #Intention Quotes

“But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'”

Source : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.8, SPCK
“No emotion or insight is too small to inflict on the world. Let it all fly. Don't let it eat you from the inside.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Sam Lipsyte". Interview with illing Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2014.
“I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.”
“where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...”
“Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.”
“In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.”
“People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.”
“I got a letter one day from somebody saying, `You're always criticizing the press. Why don't you talk about what Clay Felker is doing to your own paper [The Voice]?' And my 10-year-old son Tom, now with Williams & Connelly, put in a legal opinion, not - an opinion from the back of the car saying, `You know why? What are you, afraid?' So I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that Felker is destroying this paper.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org

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