"Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue."

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Source : Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.177, askmar publishing

Jack Woodford

#Writing Quotes #Flow Quotes #Action Quotes

“Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music I heard, but there was an article in the Brooklyn Daily written by my Aunt about how I could choose phonograph records.”
“I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.”
“There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.”
“In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.”

Source : Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.489, Hachette UK
“Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.”
“LOVE comes of its own free will, it can't be learned in any school!”
“I wouldn't steal anything because stealing is wrong. If I had to, I'd steal a caged bird and set it free.”
“A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”

Source : Hermann Ebbinghaus (1913). “Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology”

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