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“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
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“Modernist manuals of writing often conflate story with conflict. This reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition while cultivating ignorance of other behavioral options. No narrative of any complexity can be built on or reduced to a single element. Conflict is one kind of behavior. There are others, equally important in any human life, such as relating, finding, losing, bearing, discovering, parting, changing. Change is the universal aspect of all these sources of story. Story is something moving, something happening, something or somebody changing.”
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“The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.”
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“[The] reader is not primarily interested in plot. He is interested in what happens because he is interested in the character it happens to. No incident has any place in the story unless it has an emotional impact on the character--and on the reader.
Newbery Acceptance Speech”
― Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
Newbery Acceptance Speech”
― Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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