Quotes by Robert Boswell - Page 1

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Men
Defeat
Every Man
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Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Character
Way
Revealed
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Elizabeth Searle writes with intelligence, passion and wit. She's one of the best young writers around.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Passion
Writing
Young Writers
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What was your life anyway but the tiny black spot of what you've done against the infinite white of possibility?
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Black
Done
White
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Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Nice
People
Writing
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Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Discouraged
Solitary
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I guess if life were fair, people who led decent lives would be rewarded, and people who led indecent lives would not be rewarded.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Decent
Life People Who
Indecent
Led
Rewarded
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I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Insane
Newspapers
Life Time Me
Struck
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We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Dry
Elementary School
Principal
Typical
Churches
Elementary
Farm
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Every sane person has to find every day some manner of accommodating the impossible, some way of covering up for the failures of the rational world. This might actually be a reasonable definition of sanity.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Covering
Definitions
World
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You have to avoid caricature, at the one end of the spectrum, and sentimentality, at the other; which is not to say that such characters shouldn't be funny part of the time, or that their actions shouldn't evoke genuine feeling.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Evoke
Genuine
Sentimentality
Spectrum
Actions
Avoid
Caricature
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I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.
Robert Boswell / Short Story Writer
Clay
Drafting
Missing
Narrative
Pigeons
Shooting
Drafts
Productively
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