"Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sexuality. And sometimes the differences are smaller. ... Where authors get into trouble is in trying to make those different characters stand in for whole groups of people, or for creating characters only to fetishize or explore their supposed otherness. Your character can be wildly different from you, as long as he's written with respect and, moreover, specificity."

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Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

Hanya Yanagihara

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Long Quotes

“Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.75, Penguin
“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.”
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.”
“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”
“More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.”

Source : Heidi Baker (2014). “Birthing the Miraculous: The Power of Personal Encounters with God to Change Your Life and the World”, p.20, Charisma Media
“I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer”
“People want transparency in government.”

Source : "Rep. Elijah Cummings Leads Call To Investigate Trump's Business Entanglements". "Marketplace" with Audie Cornish, nhpr.org. November 29, 2016.

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