The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing…

One, something emotional has to be at stake. There has to be something important for me that I'm writing about. And then two, I…

— Edward Hirsch

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come…

— Carl Sandburg

The rhyme always knows better than you, and leads you to places where you wouldn't otherwise have gotten to and that is absolutely the…

— Nicole Krauss

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted…

— Wallace Stevens

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of…

— Annie Dillard

Japanese people wouldn't come up with ideas of blood splattering all over. Japanese focus more on the intricacies of the actions, the motion.

— Satoshi Tajiri

It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom…

— James R Newman

Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content…

— Michael Dirda

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time…

— Pat Conroy

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

— Anonymous

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say…

— Damon Lindelof

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we…

— Gaylord Nelson

I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and…

— Esther Perel

... the attempt to render visual intricacy makes words feel unwieldy, like sacks of meaning that must be lugged into place, dragged here and…

— Mark Doty