"In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2010.

Rose Tremain

#Book Quotes #Planning Quotes #Stage Quotes

“If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?”
“Nothing good ever comes without a price.”
“My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

Source : "The Vindication of Edwin Land". Forbes magazine, (Vol. 139, p. 83), May 4, 1987.
“The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress and governance of things: the men of genius propound solutions which grow into systems of Theology or of Philosophy, or veiled in musical language which suggests more than it asserts, take the shape of the Poetry of an epoch.”
“Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.”

Source : Song: Bury The Shovel, Album: Hypnotize the Moon, 1995
“I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into.”
“The overall goal [of counseling] is to help family members become 'systems experts' who could know [their] family system so well that the family could readjust itself without the help of an expert.”
“There are more than 100 first- and second- hand witnesses to the retrieval of an extraterrestrial spacecraft and at least four extraterrestrial bodies from a crash which occurred in July, 1947, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, New Mexico; written and videotaped testimony from several first-hand witnesses who are respected military officers have been obtained.”

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