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“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

Trying Different Enough Character Facts Process Subjects Source Surface Novelists Layers Questioning Reporters Observing Beneath The Surface

Author:Amy Waldman

“The fact is fossil fuel carbon will stay in the surface climate system for millennia.”

Facts Climate Surface Fuel Carbon Fossils Fossil Fuel Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:James Hansen

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.”

People Facts Creativity Creative Creation Intelligent Surface Visible Genesis

Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

“I love the fact that there are more and more young people out there who still want to make a flat two-dimensional surface come alive with three dimensional magic.”

People Want Stills Two Facts Young Three Alive Magic Surface Flats

Author:Burton Silverman

“I woke up one day to the fact that the earth's surface was made for living plants, not industrial plants.”

Made Facts Earth One Day Plant Surface

Book:Infra Structures

Source: Infra Structures

“Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?”

Knows Giving Facts Body Law Lying Names Deals Surface Combination Exception

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.”

Knows Men Doe Facts Lying He Man Appearance Insight Surface Vulgar Gross Herds

Book:The Big Bow Mystery

Source: The Big Bow Mystery

“When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”

Knows Life Facts Form Speak Understanding Understood Surface Fragile Referring Misunderstood Genius

Book:The Theater and Its Double

Source: The Theater and Its Double