"One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe."

-- Rachel Kushner

#Knowing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Narrators Quotes

“I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Historically, I guess that's how science fiction works: you start by using aliens to think the unthinkable Â— and then, eventually, another writer, having grown a little more comfortable with the earlier notion, brings it into the human.”
“I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.”
“The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.”

Source : "Music Of The O.c.: Interview With Music Supervisor Alexandra Patsavas". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. March 22, 2005.
“Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an excuse to be a fool.”
“Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.”
“I'd go to the end of the world for my husband. Of course, if he'd just stop and ask directions, I wouldn't have to.”

Source : Martha Bolton (2000). “I Love You-- Still: To Keep the Love, Ya Gotta Laugh”, Fleming H Revell Company

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