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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget. Larry Hogan

History Experience Will Darkest Chapters See Faces Voices Never Never Forget Hear Forget Victims Holocaust

Faulkner's 'As I Lay Dying' had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives. The other attractive thing about 'As I Lay Dying' was the way it gave rich voices to the poor. Peter Carey

Truth Me Experience Rich Other Gave Way Chapters Faulkner Marks Those Immense About Bear Lay Voices Points Had Most Attractive Effect Short Burn Dying Conflicting Poor Perspectives View Multiple Expressed Novels Thing

My life's a book; I've got a bunch of different chapters. Phil Murphy

Life Book Chapters Got Bunch Different

With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance. Philip Schultz

Word Every Trenches Chapters Sign Focused Significance Examining Poetry Along Overall Fiction While Sentence Each Deeper

Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences in picture books to chapter books. Chapters are often long... 10 pages can seem like a lifetime to a young reader. Then reading becomes laborious and serious. That's why some of the chapters in my books are very short. Rhea Perlman

Son Chapter Words Long Trouble Picture Reading Few Young Books Chapters Kids Some Seem Lifetime Picture Books Like Leap Reader Becomes Making Lots Very Laborious Often Short Sentences Then Pages Serious Including Why

On the page, 'Gone Girl' was a literary game: a tennis match of alternating chapters from Nick and Amy, with the reader offering to take each character's side every few pages. Richard Corliss

Character Game Girl Few Gone Every Side Chapters Take Tennis Reader Match Offering Literary Page Pages Each Nick Amy

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters. Robert Altman

Me Chapters Just Different Just One Film

In my early days, I wrote my dissertation for MIT at the London School of Economics, really under James Meade, but my dissertation was five chapters on the theory of capital movement, but it didn't mention money. Robert Mundell

Money School Economics Dissertation Chapters London Mention Days Wrote MIT Five Movement James Capital Really Theory Early Early Days

There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it. Samantha Power

Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn't allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form. Stephen McFeely

Nature You Writing Long Add Chapters Plot Characters Objective More Tends Allow Least Form Screenwriting Depth Whole Novel Film

Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel. Terence Winter

Chapters Kind Find Critics Weekly Absurd Like Reviewing Who Novel

I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did. It's spooky. Tom Clancy

Spooky Me Will Thought Subconscious Sit Few Down Think Later Typing Chapters Out Characters Find See About Someone Put Amazes Lot Did Goes Place Then Created Certain Why Start

It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden. V. E. Schwab

People World Burden Will Become Action Chapters Rules Out Characters Introducing All-Out Lay Invested Put New Opening Make Readers Sure Always Front Story Which Them Hard Set

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