"Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution."

-- Michael Moorcock

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Plot Quotes

“In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.”
“We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.”

Source : Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“Awake, awake, my Lyre!And tell thy silent master's humble taleIn sounds that may prevail;Sounds that gentle thoughts inspire:Though so exalted sheAnd I so lowly beTell her, such different notes make all thy harmony.”
“There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.”
“The later rain,--it falls in anxious haste Upon the sun-dried fields and branches bare, Loosening with searching drops the rigid waste, As if it would each root's lost strength repair.”

Source : Jones Very (1993). “Jones Very: The Complete Poems”, p.72, University of Georgia Press
“That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.”
“Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.”

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