Sandra Scofield > Quotes

“Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well.”
― Sandra Scofield, Plain Seeing

“If you aren’t nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?”
― Sandra Scofield

“And both of them are crying then, caught again in the surprise of their grief. After a year of mourning, they know they will not die of it, but neither expects it to go away. Maybe neither of them would want it to go, because then what would be left?”
― Sandra Scofield, Plain Seeing

“Our memories are filled with images that are doors into old scenes in our lives.”
― Sandra Scofield, The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer

“We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.”
― Sandra Scofield, The Scene Book: A Primer for the Fiction Writer