"The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test."

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Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.198, University of Chicago Press

Stephen Vizinczey

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“In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.”

Source : Steve Scott (2002). “Like a House on Fire: Renewal of the Arts in a Postmodern Culture”, p.46, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.”
“So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.”
“I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.”

Source : "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.
“Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.”
“Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.”
“When they talk about music getting in your blood, I understand exactly what they're talking about, because that is me.”
“What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..”

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