"Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs"

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Source : Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

Jerome Stern

#Buttons Quotes #Legs Quotes #Napkins Quotes

“It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.”
“I try to be an example and live as Christ-like as I can.”
“When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.”
“If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.”

Source : Michel Faber (2001). “Under the Skin”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.”
“Free spirited free riders they're on their way but don't know where they're going...”
“When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

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