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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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“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
“Pierre's insanity consisted in the face that he did not wait, as before, for personal reasons, which he called people's merits, in order to love them, but love overflowed his heart, and loving people without reason, he discovered the unquestionable reasons for which it was worth loving them.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“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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“Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.”
― Lud-in-the-Mist
― Lud-in-the-Mist
“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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