"Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them."

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Ann Brashares

#Baby Quotes #Character Quotes #Losing Yourself Quotes

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
“There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from knowing the chemical formula of vanilla. There is a joy, an inherent aliveness in the body that you can experience if you pay attention to your body. But if you live up in your head, in your words all the time, you don't notice it.”
“The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible.”
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.”
“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”

Source : Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
“You should have some time to think and that's very important.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org

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