"My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can."

-- Sara Zarr

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“If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.”
“Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.”
“James Cameron doesn't do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is... James Cameron.”
“That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.”
“I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.”
“Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive one. And there are really only two places in the country where you can bobsled - Park City, Utah, and Lake Placid, New York.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.”

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