The wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

— Gershon Legman

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

— Mason Cooley

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing…

— Malcolm Forbes

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself…

— Karin Tidbeck

When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than…

— Chuck Wendig

I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand…

— Joe Buck

“When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after…

— Anton Chekhov

When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is, and has…

— Russell Targ