"In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Creating Quotes #Stories Quotes #World Quotes

“Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!”

Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11
“Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.”
“My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.”
“You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy.”

Source : "I have done nothing" by Sarfraz Manzoor, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2009.
“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.”

Source : Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.”

Source : "Whose digital content is it anyway?" by James Bridle, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2015.
“There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened.”
“Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.”

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