Books Quote by Elizabeth Moon Download Open image “In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.” — Elizabeth Moon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Character Could Ego His Novel Over Perceptions Submerge Take
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute… — Heather Matarazzo Copy Share Image
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
My character is just an extension of who I am. I'm not so much of an egomaniac. I'm not so much of a narcissist. — Jade Cargill Copy Share Image
The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.' — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
“But when you know for sure that your separate ego is a fiction, you actually feel yourself as the whole process and pattern of… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and gray, or… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“My advice is, the next time you see someone you think you need to rescue, walk quickly away on the far side of the… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“I do not think God makes bad things happen just so that people can grow spiritually. Bad parents do that. Bad parents make things… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
“Apparently they didn’t realize that people who buy thousands of rounds of ammo are likely to know how to use it. We” — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother? — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
