"All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing."

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Source : Robert Olen Butler (2007). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Robert Olen Butler

#Character Quotes #Trying Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Even with Godâ€™s help there is no substitute for the hard work.”
“The eyelids confess, and reject, and refuse to reject. They have expressed all things ever since man was man. And they express so much by seeming to hide or to reveal that which indeed expresses nothing. For there is no message from the eye. It has direction, it moves, in the service of the sense of sight; it receives the messages of the world. But expression is outward, and the eye has it not. There are no windows of the soul, there are only curtains ...”
“Women are increasingly perceptive about the way media images are manipulated”
“If only everyone could know weâ€™ve been created by and for God! If only we could all comprehend that weâ€™re precious to Him, housing mirrored souls designed to reflect His glory.”

Source : Louie Giglio, Stuart Hall (2011). “Wired: For a Life of Worship Leader's Guide”, p.23, Multnomah
“they do not know that they seek only the chase and not the quarry.”
“Combination does not produce though mergers and combinations are still the accepted panacea. In Big business there appears to be increasing aridity, bureaucracy, and stultifying sacrifice of initiative and above all fear.”
“I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.”
“Photography, as an invention, was both art and science. The view it gave us of the world was in some measure acceptable because it was a product of our vision of the world; and it did so as part of the same process which seemed to impart 'truth': science.”

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