"Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression."

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Source : Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.4, Allen & Unwin

Isobelle Carmody

#Insightful Quotes #Stories Quotes #Progression Quotes

“My mother played piano so we always had music around the house”

Source : Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.
“Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.”
“Sometimes I wonder if all my friends are insane.”

Source : Tom Angleberger (2012). “The Secret of the Fortune Wookiee (Origami Yoda #3)”, p.173, Abrams
“I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that you could graph for why it's not chaos and anarchy - for why it has to be order, and why you need architects and an architectural brain to create the world of the dream for the subject to enter.”
“Sometimes we may find that our partner continues to seek satisfaction in ways that we cannot live with. Nevertheless, when we decide to go our own way, we still have a choice as to how we separate. We can separate with bad feelings, blaming the other's faults and unacceptable behaviour, or we can separate with forgiveness, love and understanding.”
“During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.”
“A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.”
“People always starve themselves, and then they get hungry, and then they eat the wrong things, like chips or cookies or whatever they can grab.”

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