I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
“I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.”
The World Motivation
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
“I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.”
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“I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.”
“India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.”
“I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.”
“The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.”
“Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.”
“People think that because I write about India I must be trying to portray India in a way.”
“The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.”
“I'm so proud of this connection that I've made with these young people.”
“I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.”
“My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.”
“The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.”
“Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse - though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed.”