"The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time."

-- Eudora Welty

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Plot Quotes

“Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.”
“Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.”
“The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.”
“There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.”
“The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.”
“Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible.”
“There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”

Source : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK
“Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.”

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