"The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar."

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Source : Constance Hale (2013). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose”, p.11, Three Rivers Press

Constance Hale

#Shapes Quotes #Flesh Quotes #Bones Quotes

“It's interesting because the way J.J. cuts - we're very close with our editors as well, so it's kind of the first cut and then he went back and started tightening things up, etc, then loosing things when it was too tight. Then you start watching it and you start figuring out performance - not performance, character-wise I should say, who you're really able to follow, whose journey is harder to follow, and you make all that work.”
“Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.”
“I have to get the most energy out of a man and have discovered that it cannot be done if he hates another man. Hate blocks his energy and he isn't up to par until he eliminates it and develops a friendly feeling...(towards all his teammates.)”
“I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.”
“We should have a banquet on the day haters die.”
“I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.”
“The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.”
“I've never known an industry that can get into people's blood the way aviation does.”

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