Janet Fitch Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. – Janet Fitch Authors Quotes Character Quotes Describing Quotes Description Quotes Emotional Quotes Establish Quotes Events Quotes Foreshadow Quotes Landscape Quotes Mood Quotes Notes Quotes Scene Quotes Tone Quotes I send all my short fiction to ‘Ontario Review’ because Joyce Carol Oates is associate editor there, and I think she’s fantastic. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Mercy Otis Warren The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. – Mercy Otis Warren
Anthony Marra Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today’s masterpiece is tomorrow’s birdcage lining. – Anthony Marra
Frank Rich In that sense, when a Bush or a Gore, or whomever, goes on David Letterman, that’s the news, too. – Frank Rich
Faye Marsay I constantly think I’ll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you’ve moved on from the scene, that’s it: it’s going in the telly and there’s nowt you can do about it! It’s really scary. – Faye Marsay
Dule Hill I could spend a whole day at a spa. I’d get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go. – Dule Hill
Christina Applegate With a mammogram – as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives – if you have very dense breasts, it really can’t see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that’s what you want to see before it becomes a tumor. – Christina Applegate
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