Sandra Scofield Professions : Novelist Born : 1943 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Sandra Scofield I find that in letters you can make things whatever you wish them to be. Sandra Scofield wish letters Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well. Sandra Scofield destiny character moving If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway? Sandra Scofield kind self mother We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning. Sandra Scofield never-stop-learning beginners forever Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors