"I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything."

-- Alan Furst

#Writing Quotes #Plot Quotes #Use Quotes

“I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.”
“It seemed like after the 80s and 90s there came a sort of weird time in politics, where something like Spitting Image was no longer feasible because politicians weren't the big personalities that they once were. But now it seems like we're coming out of that, I mean we've got Boris Johnson, and Trump overseas, and Jeremy Corbyn.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.”

Source : Love & Death: A Study in Censorship (1949)
“The world doesnâ€™t need more people playing small. Itâ€™s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. Itâ€™s time to stop needing and start leading. Itâ€™s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they donâ€™t exist. Itâ€™s time you started playing the game of life in a â€œbigâ€ way.”
“Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.”
“One does not become fully human painlessly.”

Source : "Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology". Book by Ronald S. Valle, 1978.
“The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. . . . At the time I happened to be driving across country on Interstate 80. In each city where I stopped for gas or food â€” Laramie, Ogallala, Moline, South Bend â€” the melodies wafted in from some far-off transistor radio or portable hi-fi. It was the most amazing thing Iâ€™ve ever heard. For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.”
“I figure 1000 words a day, or four pages, and sometimes I'll write more, but I'll try not to. Because I think you don't want to exhaust what it is you're writing about, so the next day you would have to gear up for a brand new scene.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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