Robert Olen Butler Quotes

• Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Inspiración, Inspiración, Historias

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• All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Character, Trying, Plot

  Robert Olen Butler (2007). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.

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  Mean, Eye, Artist

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• El humor irónico procede de la distancia entre lo que entendemos de nosotros mismos y lo que realmente ocurre en nuestro interior.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Distance, Ironic, Humour

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• We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

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  Planets, Yearning, Creatures

  Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway (2006). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.40, Grove Press

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• The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious... Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Technique, Crafts, Forgotten

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• Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Writing, Order

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• En Banderas rojas, Juris Jurjevics ha logrado brillantemente una hazaña que se está convirtiendo en una de las principales características de la literatura del siglo XXI: la perfecta combinación de una forma de género con la profunda resonancia del arte literario. La lectura de este libro es apasionante tanto por su fuerza narrativa como por su penetración en el corazón humano.

  Robert Olen Butler

  Art, Book, Red Flags

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• Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

  Robert Olen Butler

  America, Larks, Height

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