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Facade is the first shape because it focuses on creating characters through their own voices. You want your people to live on the page, but you can’t make them live by writing about them. Readers need to hear the characters speak for
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“I wanted to yell at the television like Mama and Papa, but I had to learn how to properly do it. I gathered that being a mouse was better than being a mosquita muerta, and being a snake was better than being a man, because flies pretending to be dead could be crushed, mice were shy, and men were persecuted; but everybody always avoided snakes.”
― Fruit of the Drunken Tree
― Fruit of the Drunken Tree
“One can appear (one is expected to appear) to be querying, to be turning around and examining the idea, but this little dance is a dance of appeasement, designed to silence any feeling that one’s thinking is pat.”
― American Originality: Essays on Poetry
― American Originality: Essays on Poetry
“You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal ourselves in, clean the dirt from our skins, eat of animals whose blood does not stain our hands. We long ago left the ways of our ancestors, oracles and blood sacrifice, traffic with the spirit world, listening for the voices out of stones and trees. But maybe sometimes you have felt the uncanny, alone at night in a dark wood, or waiting by the edge of the ocean for the tide to come in. We have paved over the ancient world, but that does not mean we have erased it.”
― All Our Pretty Songs
― All Our Pretty Songs
“This wasn’t about truth at all. The court didn’t want truth, the king didn’t want truth. Any truth I could give them, they could ignore as easily as the rest. It wouldn’t change their minds.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“To name something well can be one way to love it. You will have to love your novel for a long time. So, give it a name you can love, as soon as you can.”
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
― Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
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