"I really want readers to put themselves into the shoes of each character. So the opening lines are an orienting technique: this is where you are, this is who you are. Go."

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Alissa Nutting

#Character Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Technique Quotes

“Faith is knowing who God is and acting accordingly... God fights when we move.”
“I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.”

Source : "Face Time | Mary Louise Parker and Charlie Mars". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 11, 2011.
“Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.”

Source : Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.90, Writer's Digest Books
“O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.”
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.”
“I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...”
“I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all,he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.”
“I never would have agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.”

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