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Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly. ↗

— Paul Kane

#complete #complete control #control #done #going

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did. ↗

— Aaron Shepard

#goddesses #thought-provoking #change

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. ↗

— Paul Kane

#computer #desk #get #into #isolated

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#black-and-white #imagery #powerful #something #strange

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#away #cannot #explained #grief #life

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress. ↗

— Stefan Kanfer

#equivalent #evening #literary #sequins

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried. ↗

— Garson Kanin

#attributed #because #bed #eye #his

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. ↗

— Garson Kanin

#books #future #hear #higher #men

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing. ↗

— Garson Kanin

#best #best part #creative #doing #emotional

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#becomes #cruel #dealings #hard #heart