“The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework.” CharacterStoriesHandsHappensInterestingWaveThings HappenLimitationFramework Author:Brandon Sanderson
“In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these same papers were astonished by the millennial wave of emotionalism that swept the country ... One paper had a print-ready story about what a slag the Princess was, and they had to pull it at the last moment. It was replaced with an image of Diana as an angel, ascending to heaven.” CountryMomentsStoriesLastsHeavenSleepReadyMonthsPaperAngelDiedFinalsWavePrintPrincessReplacedPapersTabloidsDianaMillennialsAscendingSlag Author:Martin Amis
“All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart.” HeartStoriesBeatsPlantSilentWaveStormShockFloodMaking LoveEarthquakesOrderlySapRoaringVolcanoesWildnessBouldersOutburstYosemiteGeysers Book:John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations Source: John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations