Top 22 David Corbett Quotes

#1. The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

Ted Chiang

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#2. I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget.

Drake

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#3. horse - which had become just a horse now and not his beloved Anthos - how he got home, he did not know. He even forgot

Jess Russell

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#4. Turn and face the strange.

David Bowie

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#5. David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.

Jacqueline Winspear

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#6. It's our memories that teach us who we are.

Glenn Haybittle

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#7. My mother made a sound that from a lesser woman would have been a snort.

Josh Lanyon

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#8. I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

David Simon

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#9. The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

David Corbett

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#10. Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

David Corbett

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#11. No intelligent man believes that anybody ever willingly errs or willingly does base and evil deeds; they are well aware that all who do base and evil things do them unwillingly.

Protagoras

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#12. Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Michael J. Fox

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#13. What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

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#14. Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.

David Corbett

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#15. David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character development. Deftly crafted and impeccably researched, The Art of Character is a thoughtful and insightful book that is immensely readable and practical.

Sheldon Siegel

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#16. In times of moral depravity; I will stand by you like a rock in the surf.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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#17. Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

Libba Bray

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#18. Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

David Corbett

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#19. I'm not saying you can't do writing, just do some writing that you can build a career on. Creative writing isn't going to get you anywhere.

Francesca Zappia

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#20. If you're going to make great art, you have to make it at a huge cost - you have to be prepared to sacrifice what other people think of you, other people's opinions, and you have to make personal sacrifices.

Romola Garai

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#21. The real question is not are there other forms of life in the universe, but are there other intelligent forms of life out there right now. Because the universe is not only really big but it's also really long. It's been around for a long time; it's going to be around for a long time.

Ian Bremmer

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#22. An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

David Corbett

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