Respect the way characters may change once they’ve got 50 pages of life in them.
– Rose Tremain
Tag: change
haiku 459
morning drive –
traffic light changes
in bus window
Quotable 312
All I’ve done so far this week is change three characters’ genders and I still don’t know whether their current genitalia are permanent.
– J.K. Rowling
Quotable 293
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 274
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it.
– David Brin
Author’s Note: Adding to the Fun
While tooling around online, I came across someone who unabashedly used the word “funnest” in a sentence. The Internet is a wonderful place, and I spend a lot of time there, but it isn’t necessarily a haven for grammar purity.
The usage irked me, and the sneaking suspicion that it’s slowly becoming standard irked me even more. A quick search led me (naturally) to both Grammar Girl and the Grammarist. The short version of both is that I was right to be irked: those of us who would rather rake our nails across a chalkboard than to use “funner” or “funnest” are likely on the losing end of linguistic history. There’s nothing fun about that.
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Quotable 243
Story is change.
– Ursula K. LeGuin
Quotable 214
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
– Nancy H. Kleinbaum
(said by Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society)
haiku 299
the lives I lived
slowly pass away
except in my dreams
Quotable 184
Fiction is dangerous because it shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.
– Neil Gaiman