"Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that."

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Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14&21, 2010.

Nell Freudenberger

#Character Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Unusual Quotes

“Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press
“It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.”

Source : Jennifer James (1988). “Women and the Blues: Passions That Hurt Passions That Heal”, Harpercollins
“I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.”
“There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.”

Source : "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.
“There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.”
“I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.”

Source : "Braude's Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations and Anecdotes". Book by Jacob Morton Braude, 1957.
“Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?”

Source : Hero and Leander First Sestiad, l. 175 (1598)

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