"Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling."

-- David Farland

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.”
“I don't think there are any footsteps to be walked in. No one else has taken things that you can buy at the grocery store and put them together. I hope that I have a career as long as Julia Child.”

Source : "Sandra Lee: Food Network Didn’t Want Cocktails, Hopes Career Is As Long As Julia Child’s" by Rob Shuter, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 9, 2012.
“There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.”

Source : Source: www.rogerebert.com
“The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.”
“When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.”
“A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting' with narrative genre, the authors hope to generate different insights into the world of genomics and biotechnology than ones generally presented in existing accounts. They succeed at that goal, providing an account that is ethnographically rich and analytically open to a world whose structure, implications, and outcomes are very much in the making.”
“The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.”
“Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.”

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