Peter Turchi quotes

“Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.”
-- Peter Turchi

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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“The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?”
-- Peter Turchi

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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“You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.”
-- Peter Turchi

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“The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.”
-- Peter Turchi

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“Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.”
-- Peter Turchi

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.

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“To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."”
-- Peter Turchi

Source : Peter Turchi (2011). “Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer”, p.11, Trinity University Press

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“The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.”
-- Peter Turchi

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“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.”

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.”

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

“Think it over, think it under.”

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.”