"To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person."

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Source : "Top writing tips: Caroline Lawrence" by Caroline Lawrence, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

Caroline Lawrence

#Real Quotes #Character Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Further strengthenings of the self-centered instinct for survival recruit even greater numbers of people into some sort of ring of fellowship (church or gender, red state or blue) by populating the terra incognita outside the ring with enough barbarians to verify the existence of a civilization within--to define the preferred stock by what, as all good people agree, it decidedly is not.”
“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.”
“A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.”
“Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.”

Source : "The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina" by Gerda Lerner, Ch. 5, 1969.
“I finished 'Beautiful Creature,' and I felt somewhat unfulfilled. I felt like this other side of me needed to be released. Some of the songs I left off the album weren't intense enough to be what I wanted. They weren't hard enough.”
“I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.”
“...Chemicals(:)...We not only don't know what's going on out there is dangerous ~ we don't even know what is going on out there. It's what we don't know that can really hurt us - kill us. ...It is time we started putting chemicals to the test - not people. It is time we gave people of this country some reason to believe that every time they take a breath, or eat, or drink, or touch, they are not taking their life into their hands. It is time that, down here on earth, we took a couple of small sensible steps on behalf of human health and life...”
“The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.”

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