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Geraldine Brooks has 54 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years…
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that…
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I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.
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Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites…
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We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent…
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Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.
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I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it…
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the…
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My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.
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Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and…
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
— George R. R. Martin
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Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of…
— Sol Stein
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To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one…
— Roger Ebert
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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in…
— Paul Shepard
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……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between…
— Margaret Edson
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An actor is looking for conflict. Conflict is what creates drama. We are taught to avoid trouble [so] actors don't realize they…
— Michael Shurtleff
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Each successive phrase of our life leads toward a shared future where our climaxes, stumbles, codas, and masterpieces unravel from our dreams…
— Julie Rearick
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You're my fantasy come true. The feel of my skin tinkling as you kiss your way along my body generates so much…
— Kemis Khan
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