"The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character."

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Source : "Character Pitfalls" by Kristan Higgins, www.savethecat.com. March 28, 2014.

Kristan Higgins

#Character Quotes #Warrior Quotes #Jumping Quotes

“The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.”
“Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.”
“It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.”
“What is still more to our shame as civilized Christians, we debauch their morals already too prone to vice, and we introduce among them wants and perhaps disease which they never before knew and which serve only to disturb that happy tranquility which they and their forefathers enjoyed. If anyone denies the truth of this assertion, let him tell me what the natives of the whole extent of America have gained by the commerce they have had with Europeans.”
“If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.”

Source : Charlie Huston (2009). “My Dead Body: A Novel”, p.45, Del Rey
“Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus not imitation. ... From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life all movement and rhythm time and light, color and mood in short, all reality in Form and Thought.”

Source : "Hans Hofmann". Book by James Yohe, 2000.
“To know what youâ€™re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, thatâ€™s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.”
“Why are old maps always burnt?”

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