"The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is."

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Ruth Park

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Punk can be a mental ghetto.Â People get into it and make all these rules and pretty soon they're worse than born again Christians and have stupid three hour conversation about things like, which band is a sellout and is straight edge cool or un-cool and it's just completely idiotic.Â So punk has taught me the aesthetic of the outsider, which is great, but it's also taught me not to get involved in petty little cults.”
“I got arrested for playing chess in the street. I said, it's because I'm black, isn't it.”
“I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.”
“We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.”
“A man. A dead man. A dead man with no arms.”

Source : David Wellington (2006). “Monster Nation: A Zombie Novel”, p.271, Running Press
“I have to say that, though it sounds so superficial, the accent really does help. I like having accents preparing for a part.”
“It costs nothing to dream and everything not to”
“To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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