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Chris Lavergne

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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“I sat down and it just came out. Flew out. It's like this story has been sitting in my brain for years, taking up space.”
— Lorelai Gilmore, Once Upon a Time, Season 4: Fall
Tagged: Writing, Finding Your Voice, inspiration
“Why on earth aren’t you on Xanax? It was invented for you.”
— Michel Gerard,
Tagged: Xanax, Drugs, relax
“I impulse remarried a depraved lunatic who can't even get it up for me.”
— Marcy Runkle, Californication, Californication Season 7: Levon
Tagged: Cokey Smurf, Marriage
“Is this wrong? I can't tell anymore. I can't fucking tell anymore.”
— Hank Moody, Californication, Californication Season 7: Getting the Poison Out
Tagged: Ethics, Moral Compass, Right And Wrong
“You have got to get the toxins out, somehow, some way. It's the only thing that'll clear a man's head.”
— Stu Beggs, Doctor Who, Series 10: Smile
Tagged: Sex, Lizard Brain
“It is as though beautiful things have been placed here and there throughout the world to serve as small wake-up calls to perception, spurring lapsed alertness back to its most acute level.”
— Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
Tagged: beauty, Aesthetics, Otherworldly Grains
“Her charm was too compelling not to be tasted in secret and too sacred to be openly violated.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada
Tagged: beauty, Too Beautiful To Posses
“She can wear a business suit or a party dress to change the impression. She can change her style, if she wants, every season. But what she can’t alter all that much is what Nature has given her to work with. Her foundation— her bone structure— isn’t going to change. And one strand of her hair, blond or black, will tell anyone with the right microscope who she is. It’s strange— mind-blowing even— to think that a person’s writing might contain something like this foundational DNA. While it is true the unique way that an author uses words is not quite the same as that author’s individual and biological gene expressions, years of research in authorship attribution and stylometrics have suggested that each of us has a fairly unique and individual linguistic fingerprint or style.”
— Jodie Archer, Matthew L. Jockers, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Tagged: Communicative Algorithms, Stylometrics
“One of the enjoyments of reading is the feeling a reader has of being very close to the narrator at this moment of ellipsis. In bestselling fiction, the ellipsis is common because it is one way of creating an unspoken understanding between character and reader. Readers like it.”
— Jodie Archer, Matthew L. Jockers, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Tagged: Ellipsis, How To Write Fiction, How To Create A Bond Between Reader and Writer
“What was the physical body doing in response to the words on the page? When does your heartbeat increase? When do you feel anxiety in your gut? When do you feel the contraction of fear, or the stirring of arousal? When does the back of your neck prickle? When do you smile? When do you shout aloud a comment to a character or throw the book against the wall? In silence, we took several novels and asked students to raise their hand when they felt their body viscerally respond in any way to what they were reading. At first, they thought we were crazy. But after some classes, we noted that with NYT bestsellers their hands had all gone up within the first ten pages. With non-bestsellers, this was not so often the case.”
— Jodie Archer, Matthew L. Jockers, The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Tagged: What Does Your Body Do?, Good Writing vs. Bad Writing