"Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world."

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Source : Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.1, Lulu.com

Dorothea Brande

#Philosophy Quotes #Mind Quotes #May Quotes

“As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.”
“In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.”
“The lily is all in white, like a saint, And so is no mate for me.”
“What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.”
“Entrepreneurialism is supposed to be fun!”

Source : Lori Greiner (2014). “Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality”, p.37, Ballantine Books
“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”
“The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.”
“[A]ll her life she [Chantal] had been carefully, heroically watching over mediocre beings who were hardly real, over things of no value.”

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