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“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.”

Feels Should Two Character Stories Moving My Own Novel Cutting Crazy Information Emotional Huge Amount Scene Including Details Attachment Fades Chapters Manuscripts Less Is More Small Details

Author:Sarah Waters

“Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease; But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.”

Feelings Moving Water Born My Own Forever Mines Fine Please Shapes Stones Ease Native Tenderness Shells Sensibility Toss Oysters

Book:The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence

“I moved here when I was 20 to go to college. After I moved here, I became much more aware of the importance of the culture and literature to my life. Sometimes when you're immersed in something, you just don't notice it very much. Moving away makes you appreciate your culture. Living here, I've thought more and more about India, and what being Indian-American means to me. And it's made me incorporate things from Indian literature into my own writing.”

Writing Mean Made Sometimes Moving Culture Literature My Own College Appreciate India Importance Moved Indian American Indian Moving Away Appreciate You

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.”

Ifs Needs Moving Next Chance My Own Fashion Crowds Chances Are

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“As you see, I bear some resentment and some scars from the years of anti-genre bigotry. My own fiction, which moves freely around among realism, magical realism, science fiction, fantasy of various kinds, historical fiction, young adult fiction, parable, and other subgenres, to the point where much of it is ungenrifiable, all got shoved into the Sci Fi wastebasket or labeled as kiddilit - subliterature.”

“With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.”

Moving My Own Groups

Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition... I do not believe... that this belittles my own personality.”

Trying Believe Moving My Own Painting Masters Personality Guides Mentor Select Revision Terrain Belittle Ammunition Guide Me My Own Personality

Author:Rico Lebrun

“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing I Can Book Self Feelings Dream Beautiful Moving My Own One Thing Possibility Type Sentences Rising Someday Mentor Paragraph Typewriters Great Writers Rising Up

Author:Gina Berriault

“We should strengthen the faith of our people in their own future, the faith of every Canadian in Canada, and of every province in its sister province. This faith wrongs no one; burdens no one; menaces no one; dishonors no one; and, as it was said of old, faith moves mountains, so I venture reverently to express my own belief that if the difficulties of our future as a dominion were as high as the peaks of the Alps or Andes, yet that the pure patriotic faith of a united people would be all sufficient to overcome and ultimately to triumph over all such difficulties.”

“I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.”

Knows Want Feels Kind Moving Next Speak My Own Horns

Author:Christian Bale

“As I've gotten older and seen people around me evolving and moving on with life, I just have a stronger sense of my own mortality and time itself becomes more precious. I don't want to spend this precious and limited time on things that don't necessarily bring me happiness.”

People Want Moving My Own Stronger Evolve Mortality Moving On In Life Limited Time

Author:Justin Long

“My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers, and editors. Since I was moving in these new circles regularly, I realized I needed to do something about my own personal style. It was really Diane von Furstenberg who gave me the nudge.”

Bigs Faces Moving My Own Roles Fashion Style Needed I Realized Circles Designer Department Chairs Editors Face To Face Moving In Personal Style Nudge Retailers

Author:Tim Gunn

“My test for writing is always, is this fun or does it feel like a job? Is it moving me? Or am I just fulfilling my own expectations - or even worse, somebody else's?”

Feels Writing Doe Jobs Moving Fun My Own Expectations Tests Fulfilling

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.”

Ifs Said Humor Running Funny Moving Guy My Own Fire Comedy Legs Block Gambling This Guy Exit Own Business Casinos Mind Your Own Business Minding My Own Business

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“When I first came to America, I went into William Morris Endeavor for a meeting and I was like, "Yeah, I'm from Australia and I do comedy." I think that one of the reasons they signed me is because I wasn't like any other girl. Maybe girls don't get encouraged. The ones who get encouraged to move to Hollywood are the prettiest ones in their hometown of Iowa, or something. Whereas for me, where I come from in the western suburbs of Sydney, no one ever thought professional actors would come from there. Even my own family was like, "No one would want you on a show."”

Thinking Want Firsts Reason Shows America Moving Girl Actors My Own Comedy Hollywood Yeah Meetings Western Australia Endeavor Suburbs Hometown Sydney Iowa Other Girl Prettiest Morris

Author:Rebel Wilson

“Failure of success is not race-related; it's not socioeconomics-related; it is really predictable, based on principles that are laid down by God the Creator by which we are supposed to function. If we find them and obey them, success becomes inevitable. That's why I was able to move from rats to 40,000 feet in the air in my own aircraft.”

Ifs Able Moving My Own Race Principles Air Feet Function Creator Inevitable Related Rats Predictable Aircraft

Author:Myles Munroe

“When I'm following someone, I'm listening to a bear bell strapped to their packs. When I'm leading on a climb, like on a rock, I like to feel my way through it on my own, so I know the tricky moves and where to place gear.”

Knows Way Feels Moving My Own Rocks Listening Bears Following My Way Climbs Bells Packs Tricky Gears Leading On

Author:Erik Weihenmayer

“I know Christianity; and I know I have to move away from it and approach Jesus Christ on my own. I have to talk to Him directly and seek His guidance and protection as I seek to make my commitment to Him central to my life.”

Knows Moving Jesus Christ My Own Christianity Approach Commitment Jesus Christ Protection Guidance

Author:Anne Rice

“I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.”

Want Writing Reason Moving Certain My Own Boundaries Preserves Poetic Thirst Unknowing Perimeter

Author:Jane Hirshfield

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