“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.” IfsWritingBookCharacterMovingPurposeBehindsReaderComfortablePagesUltimateSmellBlockNovelistsPlotOutlinesPhonyPlausibleSynopsis Author:Clive Cussler
“I've been filming time lapse flowers continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 35 years. To watch them move is a dance I will never get tired of. Their sensual beauty immerses us with color, smell, taste and touch.” YearsMovingHoursWatchesWeekMovementColorFlowerTasteTiredSmellSensualLapsesTime Lapse Author:Louis Schwartzberg
“English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.” TwoMovingHoursAnimalImpossibleGrewCreaturesScientistPlantSizeSmellStupiditySpeedSquaresYellowThickFavouritePrimitiveOrganismsYardsFrightMouldSlimePorridge Author:Neal Ascherson
“There must be some unwritten law that says about fifty people have to move into your house when somebody dies. If it weren't for the smell of death clinging to the walls, you might think it was your family's turn to host the month neighborhood potluck supper.” PeopleIfsThinkingMightMovingLawDeathDiesTurnsHouseWallMonthsSmellFiftyNeighborhoodHostClingingSupperUnwrittenPotluck Book:Under the Wolf, Under the Dog Source: Under the Wolf, Under the Dog
“Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.” WorldMovingLinesWhiteOne DayPagesLettersBlueSmellPalePencilsHush Book:Brown Girl Dreaming Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
“At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.” IfsMenSeemsMovingFrontsCrowdsWorthySmellCirclesHatsTargetAfternoonOddsLocationWrathPreyCloaksColumbusTrenchesMimeUninterestedJugglersDorkyTop Hats Author:Bret Easton Ellis