"The main plot line is simple: Getting your character to the foot of the tree, getting him up the tree, and then figuring out how to get him down again."

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Source : Jane Yolen (1989). “Guide to writing for children”, Writer

Jane Yolen

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“In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest in fighting Germany and instead was determined to get someone else to assume the burden. He guessed right.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.55, W. W. Norton & Company
“Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords.”
“Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.”
“It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.”
“I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.”
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“Foes of what's cooking see no worth behind it. Those that are looking for nothing will find it.”
“If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.”

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