"Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: â€œThis is where the novel should actually start.â€ A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it."

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Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

Sarah Waters

#Crazy Quotes #Moving Quotes #Character Quotes

“The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.”
“Greetings, friends. Do you wish to look as happy as me? Well, you've got the power inside you right now. So use it and send one dollar to Happy Dude, 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield. Don't delay. Eternal happiness is just a dollar away.”
“I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.”
“Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.”
“Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.”
“Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”
“I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.”

Source : "Art Bell: Radio's Master of the Unexplained Explains Himself". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. April 20, 2009.
“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.”

Source : Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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