"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Creative Quotes

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
“It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.”
“anger as well as love casts out fear ...”
“If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot.”
“What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.”
“I, you know, am all over the place â€” every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make, like Hitchcock did, one Hitchcock picture after another. â€¦ I wanted to do a Hitchcock picture, so I did `Witness for the Prosecution,â€™ then I was bored with it, so I moved on.”
“Whenever I've speculated in the past relationships, they have never turned out the way I've expected them to.”
“I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that.”

Source : Howard Spring (2016). “My Son, My Son”, p.11, Head of Zeus

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