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Robert Olen Butler Quotes

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

Robert Olen Butler (2007). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.139, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway (2006). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.40, Grove Press