"The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!""

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Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org

Cate Marvin

#Plot Quotes #Balls Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.”
“I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.”
“For - to say a few words on technique - whereas the curved line was used predominantly for reasons of beauty, (Phidias, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens) it has been used more and more economically for reasons of truth (Millet, Monet , Paul CÃ©zanne) until it will end as the straight line for reasons of Love. This will enable the art of the future to create an international form; a form understandable to all and vital enough to the expression of a general feeling of love in a monumental way. Such is the future.”

Source : "Onafhankelijke bespiegelingen over de kunst" by Theo van Doesburg, De Avondpost Journal, January 23, 1916.
“There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.”

Source : "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.
“There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.”
“I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a woman negotiating issues around power and money, which are two things that have historically been denied to women. To see a woman operate successfully, but still find those barriers a result of that historical and systemic bias in her pursuit to the top, is a really interesting struggle.”
“Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.”
“People shouldnâ€™t be ashamed of their bodies...especially women.”

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