Top 24 Mittelmark Quotes
#1. Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.
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#2. The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except - hey presto! - when the protagonist feels like getting laid. Especially common in science fiction; apparently many writers assume that in the future women will die out.
Howard Mittelmark
#3. Unfortunately, this is so obviously a convention of bad fiction that it might as well read, 'Looking in the mirror, Joe saw a tall, brown-haired man, trapped in a poorly written novel.
Howard Mittelmark
#4. Do not think us as traffic cops, or even driving instructors. Think of us instead as your onboard navigation system, available day or night, a friendly voice to turn to whenever you look up, lost and afraid, and think How the fuck did I end up here?
Howard Mittelmark
#5. Giving a reader a sex scene that is only half right is like giving her half of a kitten. It is not half as cute as a whole kitten; it is a bloody, godawful mess.
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#6. This particular blunder is known as deus ex machina, which is French for Are you fucking kidding me?
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#7. We do not propose any rules; we offer observations. "No right on red" is a rule. "Driving at high speed toward a brick wall usually ends badly" is an observation.
Howard Mittelmark
#8. I think of myself as 'catching' the ball with my bat and letting the pitcher supply the power.
Barry Bonds
#10. As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.
Lee Roberson
#11. Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information.
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#12. For I thought there was a relation between God and the soul as yet unknown. On this theme the mind can reason to a point, a dead, impassable wall; arrived there, all that remains is to stand and cry aloud for help.
Lew Wallace
#13. If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.
Howard Mittelmark
#14. Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.
V.A. Jeffrey
#15. The big secret in acting is listening to people.
Eli Wallach
#16. It has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.
Howard Mittelmark
#18. There was a time when a book could be sold purely because its author had been to distant climes and had returned to tell of the exotic sights he had seen. That author was Marco Polo, and the time was the thirteenth century.
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#19. Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.
Howard Mittelmark
#20. In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.
Howard Mittelmark
#21. A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.
Howard Mittelmark
#22. He is a king, whatever you or he or anyone else says, and a king or queen must dispense justice without fear of enemies or favor for friends. Anyone who does that has to be hard. Mother
Robert Jordan
#23. When well executed, description is unobtrusive and lends substance to a novel. It is the body fat of prose: too much is unhealthy, but without any, you no longer have the thing - you have its skeleton.
Howard Mittelmark
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