"Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

Elif Batuman

#Memories Quotes #Real Quotes #Character Quotes

“I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.”
“Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?”

Source : Lillian Hellman (1976). “Scoundrel time”
“When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.”
“Every person is a new door to a different world.”
“I am always going to be a theater actor at heart. One of my career goals is to do "Shakespeare in the Park" someday but for now I am really excited to get working on another movie.”

Source : "Cloverfield – Interview with Michael Stahl-David". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. January 1, 2008.
“So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.”
“A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.”

Source : Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.6, Addison-Wesley Professional
“There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.”

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