"In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement."

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Source : Percy Lubbock (2007). “The Craft of Fiction”, p.56, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Percy Lubbock

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.”
“As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always played up against older age groups.”
“Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.”
“A chic home makes you happy and a happy home makes you chic!”
“Aging happy and well, instead of sad and sick, is at least under some personal control. We have considerable control over our weight, our exercise, our education, and our abuse of cigarettes and alcohol. With hard work and/or therapy, our relationships with our spouses and our coping styles can be changed for the better. A successful old age may lie not so much in our stars and genes as in ourselves.”
“Dreams don't die until we let them.”
“He that plants trees loves others besides himself.”
“From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.”

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