"With my students, I don't offer any simple tips like that, maybe because my own process is pretty messy, but when we workshop we talk a lot about the deeper subject, which is what the story or novel is about. I think defining a narrative's themes can lay bare a narrative's tensions."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Edan Lepucki

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Stories Quotes

“When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.”
“EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.”
“To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isnt there, its easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, itll come. Its definitely harder work than some people think.”

Source : "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. April 29, 2011.
“The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.”

Source : Dick Morris (2007). “The New Prince: Machiavelli Updated for the Twenty-First Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press
“Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.”
“SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.”
“In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.”

Source : George Mikes (1986). “How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide”, p.23, Penguin UK
“When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.”

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