“Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we write fiction, whether its science fiction or fantasy or western mystery stories or so-called literary stories. All those things are essentially untrue. But it has to have a truth at the core of it.” PeopleWritingStoriesLyingFictionFantasyHappenedMysteryEventsScience FictionWesternCoreUntrue Author:George R. R. Martin
“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.” PeopleTryingWellsLooksPersonsSoulWholeCharacterFactsStoriesMovingSecretDestinyGreaterMysteryDeeperWhole LifeCoreI've LearnedPenetrateArcsInevitabilityStorylineToo Deep Author:Sandra Scofield
“She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.” GivingStillsWaitingSimpleSecretHeardMysterySpecialGrewDelightAcceptedCoreAweUnfamiliarDoubtedSimple Faith Author:Charles de Lint
“Every pellet has a story all its own. Every pellet has a story all its own. With its fur and teeth and bones And one or two stones, Every pellet has a story all its own. We shall dissect every pellet with glee. Perhaps we'll find a rodents knee. And never shall we tire In the sacred task that we conspire, No do our work less perfectly And those bright flecks at the core, Which makes our hearts soar, Shall forever remain the deepest mystery. - The owlets in the Pelletorium at St. Aegolius” HeartTwoStoriesForeverMysteryStonesTasksSacredBonesCoreTeethKneesSoarTireFurGleeRodents Book:Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians