"It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you read a book because you like the character, you are cheering for the character; you want the best for the character."

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Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

Alissa Nutting

#Cheer Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.”
“My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.”

Source : Nicole Hollander (2017). “We Ate Wonder Bread”, p.2, Fantagraphics Books
“We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner.”
“You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.”

Source : "Mark Webber: I'm ready to have another bloody good crack at it". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
“But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.”
“The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly.”
“Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.”

Source : C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.4, Cambridge University Press

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