I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes bind book child
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader. Beth Gutcheon deeplyimmerseinterest Change image and share on social
I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like. Beth Gutcheon bookcommercialfiction Change image and share on social
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the first novel I've been learning techniques to distance myself from the characters so that they are not me and I don't try to protect them in ways that aren't good for the story. Beth Gutcheon charactercloselycompletely share on social
People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career. Troy Polamalu bindcareerdangerous share on social
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle. Mike Tyson beginbookcycle Change image and share on social
As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short. Michael Morpurgo attentionchildremember Change image and share on social