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Believable Quote by Don Roff

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“Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.”

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When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene…

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A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

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“Yeah, episodic doesn't work. Your coolest character needs something big and meaningful to do. Otherwise, well, it's just narrative shit.”

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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

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“I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.”

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“If you write a kid's book only for kids, then you have failed.”

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“Creativity and intelligence, rather than violence, are the best problem solvers.”

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The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

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“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.”

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“Writing is dreaming with your eyes open — and your heart on fire.”

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“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to…

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Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

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Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go…

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Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and…

Kerry Washington

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'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army.

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In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu…

Orson Scott Card

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As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which…

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American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and…

Edward R. Murrow

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Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and…

Patricia Richardson

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An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.…

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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has…

Chris Bohjalian

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I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away…

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