Quotes by Carol Berg - Page 1

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.
Carol Berg / Author
Memories
Soul
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Write a million words before thinking about getting published.
Carol Berg / Author
Published
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A soldier never dies. His blood makes the grass green for his children.
Carol Berg / Author
Blood
Children
Soldier
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Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
Carol Berg / Author
Revise
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Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership.
Carol Berg / Author
Book
Demand
Giving
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I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great idea he had about the shadings of reality!
Carol Berg / Author
Amber
Great Idea
Roger
Love Great Reality
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Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing.
Carol Berg / Author
Good Writing
Craft
Figure
Genres
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I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.
Carol Berg / Author
Flawed
Historical Fiction
Lens
Protagonist
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At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
Carol Berg / Author
Conventions
Science Fiction
Science Me Science Fiction
Board
Count
Wearing
Sandwich
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I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
Carol Berg / Author
Symbolism
Figuring
Plotting
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There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
Carol Berg / Author
Plot
Handled
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Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Carol Berg / Author
Communication
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Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
Carol Berg / Author
Angst
Dark
Hopeful
Reviewers
Satisfying
Stakes
Stories
Call
High
Endings
Yes
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So what is this feadnach? Is it another curse that makes me beholden to slaves and shrews?' 'No, my lord. It is your heart. Difficult as it may be to comprehend, there is a possibility you may have one.
Carol Berg / Author
Heart
May
Shrews
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For the 'Rai-kirah' books, I began with the image of Aleksander riding the great wastelands, and that quickly morphed into the desert. Because I wanted my slave market cold and miserable, I chose to set the opening scene in the empire's summer capital in the mountains.
Carol Berg / Author
Cold
Desert
Miserable
Opening
Riding
Scene
Slave
Summer
Began
Capital
Chose
Empire
Market
Quickly
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I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.
Carol Berg / Author
Every Night
Grammar
Teachers
Drill
Elementary
Required
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
Carol Berg / Author
Life Me People
Life Me Boring
Cultures
Societies
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I'm a fairly ordinary person - a lifelong reader, a former software engineer, and former math teacher. I come from a wonderful family of teachers, musicians, librarians, and engineers. I think I surprised them as well as my friends and coworkers when I took up writing as a hobby and let it take over my life!
Carol Berg / Author
Teacher
Engineers
Former
Lifelong
Math
Ordinary
Ordinary Person
Reader
Software
Wonderful
Writing
Life Family My Life
Fairly
Teachers
Coworkers
Musicians
Surprised
Took
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My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
Carol Berg / Author
College
Five
Lord
Mythology
Rings
Six
Vivid
History World Me
Certainly
Languages
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Creates
Designed
Gave
Greatest Thing
Lord Of The Rings
Some People
Though
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I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.
Carol Berg / Author
Age
Approximation
Dark
Enjoy
Flesh
Geography
Thinking
Start Thinking World
Began
Bone
Breath
Brink
Set
Generally
Match
Overdone
Purposely
Roman
Sense
Start
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