A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.

“No story can be devised by the wit of man which cannot be interpreted allegorically by the wit of some other man.”

— C.S. Lewis

A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

— Edward Albee

“The dance had distilled her and she had become one with the essence of all that is.”

— Holly Lynn Payne

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

— Ryan Eggold

“Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a…

— Robert Hall

I think there's something nice about a distilled sound.

— Melody Gardot

Poetry is life distilled.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“the distilled spirits business is dominated by giant producers who run immensely productive facilities that produce complex, expensive chemical admixtures year after year. That’s…

— Adam Rogers

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

— Nicholas Culpeper

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few…

— Gretchen Rubin

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

— Nicholas Culpeper

Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their…

— George Will

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

— Anonymous