"I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart."

-- Robert Crais

#Moving Quotes #Character Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
“Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.”
“My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.”
“I just love the look of film. But I have nothing against HD.”
“The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey”
“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.”
“Everyone journeys through character as well as through time. The person one becomes depends on the person one has been.”

Source : Dick Francis (1986). “A jockey's life: the biography of Lester Piggott”, Putnam Pub Group
“You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.”

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