"Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through their particular perspective. Walk around the block with them, stroll the rooms they live in, figure out what objects on the cluttered dining room table they would inevitably stare at the longest, and then learn why."

-- Dinaw Mengestu

#Block Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of the relationships that you have with every person in your life, and the relationships those people have with each other. It's just more dense and there's more time to tell stories.”
“I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.”
“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.”

Source : George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin
“Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.”
“As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.”
“If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.”
“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.”

Source : "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.
“Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12.”

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