David Farland Quotes

Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

David Farland

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• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Players

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Work
  • Like
  • Feel

• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Great
  • Help
  • Society

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Party
  • Myself
  • Unique

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• The goal of the government is to guarantee the place of Greece in the eurozone against those who want to undermine it.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Want
  • Government
  • Goal

• By generalization of methods developed by Kamefuchi, O'Raifeartaigh, and Salam, conditions for renormalizability of general gauge theories of massive vector mesons are derived. ... It is shown that all theories based on simple Lie groups (with the one exception of the neutral vector meson theory in interaction with a conserved current) are unrenormalizable.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Simple

• If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Power
  • Single

• Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • High
  • Honor
  • Sky

• The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • God

• Che quant' era più ornata, era più brutta.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • High
  • Parents
  • Free

• There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

  

  Daniel O'Connell

• If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Work
  • Edgy

• Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Bad
  • Racism

• Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Men
  • Hate

• Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • Learning

• They were very persistent. They didn't stop writing or calling.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Calling

• I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

  

  Edward Gorey
  • Serious

• a disgusting assault on the very principle of European democracy.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Democracy
  • Principle
  • Assault

• Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.

  

  David Farland
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Writing