"I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative."

-- Carmen Laforet

#Writing Quotes #Narrative Quotes #Thread Quotes

“If exposure of a nude body is thought to incite relations between the sexes, well, what of it. We want a large population anyway.”

Source : Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”
“You can't rely on your face or body to convey emotion.”

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“hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.”
“I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.”
“Of course itâ€™s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, theyâ€™re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterflyâ€”all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.”
“We cannot get grace from gadgets.”
“For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right,”

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