Unactivated Quotes

#1. Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.

Sarah Hall

#2. You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

Penny Marshall

#3. When things don't go your way, never forget who you are, and always remember the bigger picture.

Bill Rancic

#4. I lived in Peckham for the first 12 years of my life and then my mum and dad decided they really didn't want to bring up their children there. So they saved up money and bought a house in Plumstead, semi-detached, three bedrooms.

Tinie Tempah

#5. I was diarrhea and she was merely a bad case of indigestion.

Tarryn Fisher

#6. Were you her lover? Did she cheat on you?" He paused. Rhoswen glared at him but remained silent. He said, "I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that's a no. Did she really have to get rid of her servant just because I came along? Wait, here it comes again: no.

Thea Harrison

#7. But they took readily to Shakespeare, as all children do when he is not made horrible with parsing and analysing.

George Orwell

#8. I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#9. My beloved grows Right out of my own heart How much more union can there be.

Rumi

#10. Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Karlie Kloss

#11. Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead

Jack Higgins

#12. In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.

Noah Hawley