The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.
Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
-
Robin Hood
The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.
-
Steve Maraboli
Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bind Chaos wants to devour Cal wants to live
-
Cassandra Clare
Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting, the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.
-
Curtis Tyrone Jones
Some bow to the spirit of collectivism, while you ascend to the spirit of your own eclectic rhythms.
-
Curtis Tyrone Jones
More Quotes By Ethan Canin
As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.
In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the...
I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.
I'm a craftsman type of teacher. I don't like the thematic type of teaching that takes place in a lot of colleges.
In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary as well as anyone, but I would write kidney instead of nephric. I insisted on using English.
