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We have to allow ourselves the freedom to make mistakes, including cultural mistakes, in our first drafts. I believe it's okay to get cultural details wrong in your first draft. It's okay if stereotypes emerge. It just means that your experience is limited, that you're human.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Allow Believe Cultural Details Draft Drafts Emerge Experience First Freedom Get Human Including Just Limited Make Means Mistakes Okay Our Ourselves Stereotypes Wrong You Your I Believe

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If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: About Because Cartooning Details Furniture Going Historical Home Modern-Day Period Pieces Suburb Those Well World Writing

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'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Autobiographical Been Came Commentary Context Details Each Formed How Informed Intended Me Personal Philosophy Piece Puts Represents Reveal Scope Show Some Works Writing

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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by the accretion of particular details, and the specificity of these details renders whatever conclusions the story reaches invalid for wider application.

~George Saunders

Topics: Against Application Argument Being Conclusions Details Fiction General Good Make Only Particular Rhetorical Short Short Story Specificity Story Things Think Whatever Wider I Think

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The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

~George Saunders

Topics: Absence Beloved Constant Culture Details Exaltation Fear Human Hunger Kindness Laws Local Love Merely Naturally Need Periodic Predictable Reliable Rises Universal Up

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Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

~Gerhard Schroder

Topics: Coordination Details Doubt Europe May More Need No Doubt Policy Union Whatever

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