"All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals."

-- J.A. Konrath

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I am a creature of my pen. My pen is the best of me.”
“I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.”
“What one person does, several people usually consider.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Hawksong”, p.213, Delacorte Press
“We all enter the world with fairly simple needs: to be protected, to be nurtured, to be loved unconditionally, and to belong.”

Source : Louise Hart (1994). “On the Wings of Self-esteem: A Companion for Personal Transformation”
“I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.”
“To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.”

Source : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012.
“My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.”
“Making one object, in outward or inward nature, more holy to a single heart is reward enough for a life; for the more sympathies we gain or awaken for what is beautiful, by so much deeper will be our sympathy for that which is most beautiful,--the human soul!”

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