"I'm pretty instinctual when I write, and I really like to get to a point where I'm writing where I don't know what's going to happen next. Usually when I get to that point, something will happen that I find intriguing or interesting, or that will push the fiction in a way that I really like."

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Source : "5x5: Brian Evenson". jameson-zimmer.squarespace.com. January 15, 2015.

Brian Evenson

#Writing Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”
“When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead â€” When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed....”
“I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage”
“There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.”
“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”
“My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].”
“When you're shooting a film, you really don't get to be a dad, and you don't really get to be a husband. You don't really exist at all. But I do drag my family with me on location whenever I can.”
“If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology.”

Source : Karen Armstrong (2007). “The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness”, p.212, Anchor

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