"I'm a novelist, and idle speculation is what novelists do. How odd to spend one's life trying to pretend that non-existent people are real: though no odder, I suppose, than what government bureaucrats do, which is trying to pretend that real people are non-existent."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Real Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Source : Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Creating Characters: How to Build Story People”, p.1, University of Oklahoma Press
“When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.”
“Your weakness can be turned to strength for God's glory.”
“Before going mountain bike riding, it's a good idea to leave your valuables at home. Your testicles, for example.”
“We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work”
“Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.”
“Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his nervous and muscular system.”

Source : René Huyghe (1962). “Art and the Spirit of Man”, London : Thames and Hudson
“In life beauty perishes, but not in art.”

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