"You learn a lot, writing fiction."

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Penelope Lively

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, â€œThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?”
“It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.”
“Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.”
“Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.”
“The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.”
“At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.”

Source : Todd Skinner (1993). “Modern Rock Climbing: Sport Climbing and Top Roping Beyond the Basics”, Ics Books
“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world.... It was this vision that gave him his great power, for when he went into a fight, he had only to think of that world to be in it again, so that he could go through anything and not be hurt”
“Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.”

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