"Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity."

-- Michael Helm

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Battle scars just remind us that we survived.”
“How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.”
“All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another.”

Source : Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins
“People think I was born in top hat and tails.”
“There was a clarity to the Nineties. It was pre-9/11, before that anxiety kicked in that exists right now about the financial crisis or terrorism. We were all just going to move forward into the millennium and everything was always going to get better. Then, whoops, that didn't happen.”
“Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.”
“You have to be kind of alerted to the fact that clowns are scary and then you can't look at them the same way again. There's something very sinister about them... There's something very tragic about them as well. The last thing they are is funny.”
“Sometimes I feel like . . . the world is a place I bought a ticket to. Itâ€™s a big show for me, as if it wouldnâ€™t happen if I wasnâ€™t there with a camera.”

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