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When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Writing
Novel
Caricature
Write while the heat is in you. … The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Write
Iron
You don’t actually have to write anything until you’ve thought it out. This is an enormous relief, and you can sit there searching for the point at which the story becomes a toboggan and starts to slide. - Marie de Nervaud
Marie De Nervaud
Story
Slide
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. – Seth Godin
Seth Godin
Remarkable
Visions
A great story is true. Not necessarily because it’s factual, but because it’s consistent and authentic. – Seth Godin
Seth Godin
Great
Story
Authentic
Fiction is an ancient virtual reality technology that specializes in simulating human problems. - Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall
Fiction
Human
Problems
Story = Character + Predicament + Attempted Extrication. - Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall
Story
Character
Story—sacred and profane—is perhaps the main cohering force in human life. - Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall
Story
Profane
Life
Sacred
If I could leave my audience with only one single key takeaway message, what would it be? If my audience was to forget everything else I said, what one single idea or lesson would I want them to remember? – Akash Karia
Akash Karia
Audience
Message
Single
Dialogue is more powerful than narration. It puts audience members into the scene, allowing them to hear exactly what was said. – Akash Karia
Akash Karia
Narration
Dialogue
We all will experience pain, struggle, and trauma; suffering is a choice to cling and remain attached to the story. - Michael Margolis
Michael Margolis
Struggle
Experience
Story
Your greatest achievement will always be your life’s story. – Michael Margolis
Michael Margolis
Story
Life
If you’re not telling your story, somebody is telling it for you. – Michael Margolis
Michael Margolis
Story
Somebody
If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the stories. If you want to change a culture, change the stories. – Michael Margolis
Michael Margolis
Learn
Stories
Leaders lead by telling stories that give others permission to lead, not follow. – Michael Margolis
Michael Margolis
Stories
Lead
Permission
Follow
If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), “Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?” chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death. – Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield
Writer
Death
The engineers of the future will be poets. – Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna
Engineer
Poet
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. – Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
Human
Stories
Metaphors
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. - Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Literature
Wreckage
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. - Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard
Rewrite
Writing
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