Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

— Bill Watterson

Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere.

— Thorne Smith

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in…

— Don DeLillo

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

If you're very open to watching the world go by, with people's different tics, you absorb it all without realizing it and find ways…

— Emily Blunt

The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is…

— John Piper

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

— Tom Waits

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

— Giacomo Casanova

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather…

— Arto Lindsay

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Always read…always learn…always absorb.”

— Pia Leba Talmud

“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate…

— Mary Roach

I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out…

— Kat Edmonson