We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve BinchyRead
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the author's desire to create relatable and enjoyable stories for readers.
Maeve Binchy conveys her passion for storytelling with the aim of creating a connection with her audience. She desires to craft narratives that resonate with people's lives, providing them comfort and familiarity through her writing.
In practice
This quote can be used in a writing workshop to inspire budding authors to focus on the emotional connection in their stories.
We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
Cubism did not accept the logical consequences of its own discoveries; it was not developing abstraction towards its own goal, the expression of pure reality.
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little more propriety be reproached as a plagiary, than the architect can be censured as a mean copier of Angelo or Wren, because he digs his marble out of the same quarry, squares his stones by the same art, and unites them in columns of the same orders.
The dream is not a map. A poem is not the territory. The dreamer reclines in a barbershop carpeted with Afro turf. In the dark some soul yells. It hurts to walk barefoot on cowrie shells.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
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