Samanta Schweblin quotes

For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for.
-- Samanta Schweblin

#Attention #Argument #Introspective

I think we live in a world where "the normal," is just a cut that each society creates for itself, but leaves out a number of situations, thoughts, and events as part of what we catalog as normal.
-- Samanta Schweblin

#Cutting #Thinking #World

I'm sure I'll also be very attentive to how tension is built and maintained in a story. I think this curiosity is the heart of all my texts, and it's something vital that I also seek in everything I read.
-- Samanta Schweblin

#Heart #Thinking #Curiosity

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values

Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.

The music has always been my bread and butter, and I've focused more of my attention on that.

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

I'm an introspective person. I'm not an extrovert.