"If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whiskerâ€”you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you wonâ€™t be â€˜caught,â€™ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in itâ€”you will be mine."

Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

Pat Schneider

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“I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.”
“Every decade has a completely different sound not just musically but vocally.”

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“He grunted and stirred, withdrawing from her. She only had a moment to be disappointed and then he flipped her to her back and rose over her, powerful and male. He casually parted her legs with his knees and thrust into her again, hot and hard. She gasped at the swift invasion, the lovely feeling, and then his face was next to hers, his big palms cradling her cheeks. â€œWhat I want,â€ he drawled, â€œis ye. Nothinâ€™ else.”
“You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!”

Source : Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.”
“To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.”
“Iowans are super talkative, like me. I'm very talkative. I'm very curious about strangers.”
“We are, in the end, a sum of our parts, and when the body fails, all the virtues we hold dear go with it.”

Source : Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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