Macrostructure Quotes & Sayings

Any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography. — Elizabeth Bowen

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. — Xun Zi

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences. — Jesse Kellerman

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender. — Thomas Keneally

Divas are not made, they are born. — Fiona Apple

You're talking about the whole 'completing each other' thing, and I hate that. It's such Hollywood bullshit. We don't complete each other - no two people do. We just highlight what's missing. We're just two incomplete people. — Stephen Emond

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Wait, I almost shouted, but didn't, and that would be my burden to bear. — Katie Cotugno

I feel like I am very drawn to the short form stuff because it's just fun to be making something, and then, a week later, it's out. I will always be drawn to that kind of thing. — Roman Coppola

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. — Thomas Jones

To take one step forward is the way to the finishing line, it doesn't matter how long it takes as long you'll get there eventually. — Euginia Herlihy

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve people. — Leo Tolstoy

Tactically, yelling at Google is unwise. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can't kiss people in the morning? — Holly Hood

I'd rather watch SpongeBob with with Kimmy than talk to you. At least that stupid yellow sponge tries to make sense. — Lora Leigh

This girl will either be the death of me or be the very reason I breathe. — Ashley King