"I don't beat at the details, but I do always keep in mind that anything that isn't A) moving the story forward or B) enlarging my understanding of the central characters has to be sacrificed. I have huge folders of details - research - with a story like Netherlands. Only a very small part of it gets used. The old iceberg analogy again."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Jim Shepard

#Moving Quotes #Character Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.”

Source : "Japan's booming drug culture" by Rebecca MacKinnon, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2003.
“Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.”

Source : Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle is the Way: The Ancient Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage”, p.48, Profile Books
“If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.”
“For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.”
“A heart that hurts is a heart that works.”

Source : "Song: "Bright Lights" ("Battle for the Sun")". 2009.
“My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.”
“It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.”
“Do ye dare to draw arms against the justice of God?" snapped the tubby little judge. Jamie drew the sword completely, with a flash of steel, then thrust it point-first into the ground, leaving the hilt quivering with the force of the blow. "I draw it in defense of this women, and the truth," he said "If any here be against those two they'll answer to me, and then God, in that order.”

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