"If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you."

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Alan Lightman

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Plot Quotes

“You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it.”
“There is so much that glows in the circus, from flames to lanterns to stars. I have heard the expression â€œtrick of the lightâ€ applied to sights within Le Cirque des Reves so frequently that I sometimes suspect the entirety of the circus is itself a complex illusion of illuminationâ€ .”
“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.”
“Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press
“Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.”
“And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.”
“For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.”

Source : Source: www.today.com
“The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.”

Source : "Steve Jobs In Memoriam: Remembrances and Tributes". www.billboard.com. October 05, 2011.

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