"If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place."

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Source : 1993 Time, 29 Nov.

Annie Proulx

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Any time one person makes an effort to contact a deeper part of him or herself, balance his or her emotions, and deflect the stress momentum, others benefit. As more individuals learn to maintain their poise and balance and refrain from adding to the incoherence around them, they help to counterbalance the frequency of stress”
“Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.”
“DEBT, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slave-driver. As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet, Pressing his nose against the glass that holds him, Nor ever sees the prison that enfolds him; So the poor debtor, seeing naught around him, Yet feels the narrow limits that impound him, Grieves at his debt and studies to evade it, And finds at last he might as well have paid it.”
“The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.”
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm.”
“I think that the media is as divided on this issue [of gay marriage] as the Obama family â€” which is to say not at all. And so heâ€™s never going to get negative coverage for this....When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, itâ€™s very hard to lose politically.”

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