Quotes by Scott Bradfield - Page 1

We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.
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Mistake
Our Lives
Terrible
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Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.
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Mistake
Sweet
World
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In terms of a "career," I never have long-term plans, and certainly don't want to spend several years, say, writing a "long" novel.
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Careers
Writing
Years
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For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself.
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Inspiration
Writing
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I can’t think of a more philosophical time in a person’s life than when they are children. It’s the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.
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Beautiful
Children
Philosophical
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I've published several virtually invisible novels and several dozen even more invisible short stories over the years, all of which give me joy - unlike the cumulative experience of seeking publishers for them!
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Joy
Years
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Perhaps teenagers don't interest me as much as children do since I still feel (even at 58) to be a fairly adolescent personality, especially in my enthusiasms, and I find myself an uninteresting fictional character.
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Children
Teenager
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I am not especially good at remembering the actualities of the world I inhabit, but I have pretty strong associative memories of how it feels to live in that world, and to wonder at its weird machinations, at any age.
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Memories
Strong
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I've always liked the fact that fiction takes all these pretty unquantifiable human feelings and experiences and projects them onto the page in ways that make interior human sense, even when they aren't entirely believable...
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Feelings
Fiction
Pages
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For years (decades even), I genuinely believed that world would beat a path to my books and stories, but eventually, as everything I wrote went rapidly out of print and stayed there, I wised up and started assembling them in e-format editions...
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Stories
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I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.
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Children
Sexy
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Every time I start off a book or a story I feel like I'm developing a new style or approach for that individual story alone, and it sometimes feels as if readers are looking for the same style/approach from the same writer over and over again, which hasn't helped me in the publishing biz.
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Stories
Style
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The body, I have often thought, is like a promise. You keep things in it. Those things are covert, immediate, yours. There is something lustrous about them. They emit energy, like radium or appliances. They can be replaced, repaired or simply discarded. The promise of the body is very firm and intact. It's the only promise we can count on, and we can't really count on it very much.
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Energy
Promise
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