"In commercial fiction especially, everything in the story usually contributes directly to the plot The shorter the story, the truer this is"

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Nancy Kress

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Stories Quotes

“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”
“I've learned enough things the hard way to know we humans can make a difference.”
“We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.”
“To talk to his children about God, a person needs to first talk to God with the impossible.”
“... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way.”
“I am actually turned off when I look at an account and donâ€™t see any selfies, because I want to know whom Iâ€™m dealing with. In our age of social networking, the selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, 'Hello, this is me.'”
“Hope is a demon worse than your Pain.”
“As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.”

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