"Maybe I'm perverse, but the question of "rooting" for a character, or setting out to write a character for whom other people will root, has never had anything to do with why I read or write fiction. As long as the writing and story remain alive, intense, invigorating, provoking, the characters can be as demonic or saintly as the author wants."

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James Lasdun

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Roots Quotes

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin
“Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.”
“All you can do is make a piece of product, sell it on its own terms, stand behind it and hope that people will go see it. If you try to be like something else or appeal to any given group, then you can very easily end up being gratuitous and imitative. There's not much to be gained by that and I think too much time is spent going around trying to be like someone else.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.”
“I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.”
“The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.”

Source : Eduard Bernstein (1911). “Evolutionary Socialism: a Criticism and Affirmation: (Die Voraussetzungen Des Sozialismus und Die Aufgaben Der Sozialdemokratie.)”
“The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.”
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

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