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For the past six years, I have kept my copy of John Truby’s Anatomy of Story almost perpetually at hand, constantly referring back to it and using its suggested exercises to keep track of my novel’s characters, theme, and plot. Truby’s insistence on
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“If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.”
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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“Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.”
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“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For Master Nathaniel that was a moment of surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm.”
― Lud-in-the-Mist
― Lud-in-the-Mist
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