Quotes by Steven Amsterdam - Page 1

A story is built on characters and reasons.
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Character
Reason
Stories
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Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
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Bats
Has Beens
Publishers
Bat
Publisher
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I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
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Looks
Rooms
Writing
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The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
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Wisdom
Limits
Our World
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
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Attention
Fiction
Hands
Shapes
Draw
Recognizable
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I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
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Design
Conscious
Used
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I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].
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Challenges
Character
Track
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I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
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Fun
Might
Writing
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You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.
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Advise
Dying
Educate
Family Member
Member
Minor
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Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?
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Book
Decades
Nursing
Publishing
Writing
Contract
Sign
Thousands
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Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
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Crucial
Nursing
Offers
Patient
Sight
Smell
Vigilance
Comments
Contribute
Movements
Sights
Smells
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