"Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love."

-- Francesca Lia Block

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.”

Source : Marcus Garvey (2012). “Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey”, p.68, Courier Corporation
“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”
“I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.”
“As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.”
“When we talk about defending Muslims, defending women, we're automatically by default excluding someone, but when we talk about defending liberty, when we talk about defending the freedoms that are enshrined within our founding documents, that is inclusive of every American. That's a message the American left needs to learn as we move forward.”
“I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.”
“Then I wondered if that's all God ever is--somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are--different faces of God walking around.”

Source : Sheri Reynolds (1997). “Rapture of Canaan”, p.178, Penguin

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