"A plot begins when somebody has something to hide."

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Source : "'A Death In Summer' Starts With A Mysterious Suicide". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 2, 2011.

John Banville

#Writing Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Take the gentle path.”
“A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.”
“Survival is triumph enough.”

Source : Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.”
“You been down to the bottom with a bad man, babe But you're back were you belong”
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
“A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?”
“A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.”

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