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I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

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Jane Yolen

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.

Name, Names, Never Forget, Number, Numbers, Tell

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But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason. . . Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.

Hair, Memories, Past, Recall, Shaved, Thought

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

Done, Intuition, Needs, Prep, Prepare, Remember

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

Memories, Memory, Numbers, People, Swallows

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

Dream, Dreams, Enemy, Part, Shadow, Son

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Exercise, Needs, Thinking, Write, Writing

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

Dog, Horse, Recitation, Stars, Ten, Thing

Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey

You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey, the so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing. Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.

Bafflingly, Confused, Eight, Funny, Paralyzing, Philosophical

Tavi Gevinson

Tavi Gevinson

I see so few scripts just because, for whatever reason, there just aren't that many good scripts with a young, teenaged girl. So it's always been sporadic. People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.

Girl, Know, References, Thinking, Writing, Young

Mehmet Murat Ildan

It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair!

Christian, Fair, Heart, Matter, Muslim

Rupert Holmes

I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in a way that the audience finds amusing, the characters themselves don't have the consolation of knowing they're in a comedy.

Audience, Character, Characters, Knowing, Mind, Way