“To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.”
James N. Frey (1943) American writer
Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
Albums, Lupe Fiasco's The Cool (2007)
“To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.”
James N. Frey (1943) American writer
Source: How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling
“It's a match made in heaven… by a retarded angel.”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Marriage and hanging go by destiny; matches are made in heaven.”
Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy
Section 2, member 2, subsection 5.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part III
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications
Jacob Tobia (1991) american LGBTIQ activist
Sissy Diaries: The Harsh Realities of Dating for Gender-Nonconforming Femmes https://www.them.us/story/sissy-diaries-dating-while-nonbinary (April 25, 2018).
William Shockley (1910–1989) American physicist and inventor
As quoted in The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow (1989) by Fred Warshofsky, p. 21.
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet