"If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background."

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Source : Janet Burroway (1987). “Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft”, Little Brown

Janet Burroway

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“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”
“For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.”
“When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.”

Source : "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.
“When God gives us a vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.”
“Winter's done, and April's in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!”
“Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.”
“There were two forests for every one you entered. There was the one you walked in, the physical echo, and then there was the one that was connected to all the other forests, with no consideration of distance, or time. The forest primeval, remembered through the collective memory of every tree in the same way that people remembered myth- through the collective subconscious that Jung mapped, the shared mythic resonance that lay buried in every human mind. Legend and myth, all tangled in an alphabet of trees remembered, not always with understanding, but with wonder. With awe.”

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