"Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and endâ€”as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary."

-- John Berendt

#Running Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I feel like a nude little piece of white meat out here.”
“The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.”
“Bruno: We're not supposed to be friends, you and me. We're meant to be enemies. Did you know that?”

Source : "Fictional character: Bruno". "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.”

Source : John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
“In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.”
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.”
“I'm going to make a prediction - it could go either way.”
“It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.”

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