Quotes by Robert Olen Butler - Page 1

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.
Robert Olen Butler / Writer
Inspirational
Inspiring
Stories
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We are the yearning creatures of this planet.
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Creatures
Planets
Yearning
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All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
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Character
Plot
Trying
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The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.
Robert Olen Butler / Writer
Distance
Humour
Ironic
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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.
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America
Height
Larks
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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.
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Crafts
Forgotten
Technique
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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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Artist
Eye
Mean
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In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.
Robert Olen Butler / Writer
Art
Book
Red Flags
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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 / Writer
Art
Order
Writing
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