"Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.”
“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.”
“I know what I have to do now, I've got to keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?”
“In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.”

Source : "Juliet Stevenson: The power of storytelling" by Juliet Stevenson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2009.
“Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.”
“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
“It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow
“Simply to endure is to triumph.”

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