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A Perfect Paragraph (plagiarized, of course)
Posted in Writing 24 June 2010 11:13 Nicola Morgan (@nicolamorgan) said it better than I ever could have:
The weird thing about fiction is that the reader knows perfectly well that you are making it up – you are a professional liar – and yet demands to believe utterly in the whole story. Novelists can have impossible things happen, which the reader knows are impossible, and yet you must simultaneously make him believe, in that part of his brain that engages fully with the characters. A novelist can make a reader believe that a character can fly, read minds, turn spinach into brandy, or live forever; but if you get it wrong … even the most ordinary and highly possible act becomes unbelievable. And it matters, really matters.
–Help! I Need a Publisher! "Suspending Disbelief"
Go there. Read that.
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All she wants is to hide her scarred face. All he wants is to take the perfect portrait. 
Who are you, that you should forget the Lord your maker, who has stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the Earth? 
Doesn't the sun always come up again? 
You cannot be yourself until you know who you are. 
Fear is a powerful enemy. But it’s a powerful ally, too.
Sometimes, life just isn’t like a storybook.
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