"There is a value to moving more slowly through a story."

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Christopher Bollen

#Moving Quotes #Stories Quotes #Values Quotes

“Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause”
“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?”
“My credit card company calls me if it looks like I've bought too many hoodies and cargo pants for my kid at Old Navy.”

Source : "Review: 'Identity Thief' has no charge" by Christy Lemire, www.yahoo.com. February 8, 2013.
“Without strong encryption, you will be spied on systematically by lots of people.”
“Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.”
“We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need”
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.”
“The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.”

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