"Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn't mean you don't use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted."

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Source : "Writing a Novel: Some Hints for Beginners".

Dorothy Bryant

#Book Quotes #Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes

“You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.”
“I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.”
“I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.”
“The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there.”
“The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.”
“Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.”
“In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

Source : Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1848). “The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.14
“Hollywood is something imagined Acting is something crafted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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