"Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech."

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Les Standiford

#Running Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.”

Source : "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
“Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.”
“I have started down the avenue of death and depression of a new kind of flatmate.”
“It's only fair to warn you that you sealed your fate tonight. When you knew you were in trouble, you came to me. That makes twice, Mercy, and twice is almost as good as a declaration. You are mine now.... Ben says you might run. If you do, I will find you and bring you back. Every time you run, Mercy. I won't force you, but. .. No more excuses, Mercy. You are mine, and I am keeping you.”

Source : "Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, Book 3)". Book by Patricia Briggs, 2008.
“I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.”

Source : "Kimberly Caldwell on New Motherhood: ‘It’s the Greatest Challenge’". Interview with Melody Chiu, celebritybabies.people.com. November 25, 2015.
“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”

Source : O Magazine Interview, May 2004.

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