"The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff."

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Source : Steven Brust (2003). “The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha”, p.396, Macmillan

Steven Brust

#Stuff Quotes #Should Quotes #Structure Quotes

“But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!”
“There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.”
“Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.160, A&C Black
“In order to fix it, you need a passionate anger about something that doesn't work well.”
“Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.”
“And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.”
“I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.”
“And no matter how good you are you have to work at it. It's non-stop every day, every day. The best the offensive line feels is when the season starts.”

Source : Source: www.post-gazette.com

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