"You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer."

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Source : Jean M. Auel (2011). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (Enhanced Edition): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.681, Bantam Dell

Jean M. Auel

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“I remember driving home one evening while they were reviewing the papers on the radio. One of the articles was about me separating from my wife. It's a weird thing to listen to a news report about the break-up of your marriage.”
“Silent harmony is the gift you give yourself... As you push past the infinite, you can feel your own music, your own frequency, beginning to project itself past you, beyond infinity, into nowhere, starting to generate its own star.”
“These are the living springs of great thoughts and great actions. Everything grows clear in the reflections from the Infinite.”
“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”

Source : Jim Carroll (1998). “Void of course: poems 1994-1997”, Penguin Group USA
“When I go outside in the morning for coffee, I'm not going to spend forty-five minutes getting ready. I just don't care.”
“To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart.”

Source : William Macneile Dixon (1937). “The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937”, London : E. Arnold
“Whatever you do, think of the Glory of God as your main goal.”
“Since I went public with my story, I've never experienced such hate. I sometimes want to crawl under my blanket and hide forever and say, "No, that's some other girl who had an opinion." My blood has boiled a few times, but I just have to come back to earth and say people are entitled to their own opinions and I'm entitled to share my story the way I want. And that's exactly what I'm doing.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

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