Quotes by Steven Amsterdam - Page 1

A story is built on characters and reasons.
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Character
Reason
Stories
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Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.
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Bats
Has Beens
Publishers
Bat
Publisher
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I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
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Looks
Rooms
Writing
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The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
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Wisdom
Limits
Our World
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Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
Steven Amsterdam / Writer
Attention
Fiction
Hands
Shapes
Draw
Recognizable
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I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
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Design
Conscious
Used
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I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].
Steven Amsterdam / Writer
Challenges
Character
Track
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I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
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Fun
Might
Writing
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You walk into someone's house and they're dying, or they've got a family member who is dying. Your needs are minor; you're there to serve and to advise and to educate. You're not there to provide yourself.
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Advise
Dying
Educate
Family Member
Member
Minor
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Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break?
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Book
Decades
Nursing
Publishing
Writing
Contract
Sign
Thousands
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Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
Steven Amsterdam / Writer
Crucial
Nursing
Offers
Patient
Sight
Smell
Vigilance
Comments
Contribute
Movements
Sights
Smells
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