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"I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin."
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"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."
"The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events."
"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."
"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."
"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
"Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters."
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
"The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images."
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"I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again."
"I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward."
"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."
"My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages."
"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."
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