"What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very journalistic mode describing a character and observing a character - and that's what I do with a lot of characters in my books. And then my imagination eats them alive."

-- Bob Shacochis

#Real Quotes #Book Quotes #Character Quotes

“I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.”
“I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never been so afraid in my life. And the truth is I would kill someone, whoever tried to hurt him. I would. I have no doubt about it.”
“Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.”
“Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.”
“Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.”
“The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.”
“Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.”

Source : Christopher Alexander (1975). “The Oregon Experiment”, p.206, Oxford University Press, USA
“The biggest challenge is not the storytelling, it's to track every character's arc through the entire movie.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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