"Respect your characters, even the Âminor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters' stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist's."

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Source : "Sarah Waters's rules for writers" by Sarah Waters, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2010.

Sarah Waters

#Art Quotes #Hero Quotes #Character Quotes

“I've always thought about gender, as someone who has been categorically "gender nonconforming" for my entire life, I was forced to think about it, but obviously I became more conscious of it as a social issue as I've gotten older. And as I've met more folks who are genderqueer or trans, it's been really enlightening to hear their stories, and it got me thinking about my own gender history.”
“Love is the only prayer I know.”

Source : "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.
“If you don't like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.”
“The most important thing I think we need to remember is that we're a work in progress. Do not be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. That's what I did. I asked for help.”
“I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one - it was called What Goes On.”
“Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.”

Source : P. W. Catanese (2010). “Dragon Games”, p.38, Simon and Schuster
“Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.”
“The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.”

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