'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is...
To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm ...
The practice of perfect virtue does not require teaching, but instructs others.
You don't think I'm going to deflower you under your father's roof, do you?
Soft flesh mingled with defiant will to create one frustratingly perfect woman.
When I am perfect, I will be allowed to leave.
... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.
Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed so you could open one that leads you to the perfect road.
If our life was perfect...heaven would be meaningless!
God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.
Life would be perfect if monster would stop farting.
A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.
Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.
She is so beautiful. Perfect. Mine. No. Not mine. I am hers.
