"Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives."

-- James Alexander Thom

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fire Quotes

“Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.”
“Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.”
“How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.”
“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.”
“Access to a school library results in more reading.”
“The conquest of the outskirts of the atmosphere, and eventually space, is a revolutionary event, comparable only to the transition of the aquatic animals to the land in geologic times.”
“Either one of you kill him, or I will.â€ Shade, Wraith and Kynan raised their hands to volunteer. How special. Brotherly love ran like syrup in the room.”
“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.”

Source : "Alan Rickman Interview NOBEL SON" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 5, 2008.

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