I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I’m not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I’m just going to put you inside one with somebody… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
These truths may seem simple and self-apparent and the words easy to say, but the states of mind that you live in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he… — Henry Cabot Lodge Copy Share Image
No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
“He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The great object of life is Sensation - to feel that we exist - even though in pain - it is this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The writing I have in mind and sometimes indulge in myself is concerned, not with plants, mountains or birds as items of… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan,… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The nature of atheism merits clarification on two further points which involve less common ideas about theism. The first involves the idea… — Austin Cline Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“He was almost twenty and Ree knew most girls would call him handsome or dreamy or some such. Sandy hair, blue eyes,… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but… — George Grey Copy Share Image
When I see people talking on the internet about me or my work it's almost always more a description of themselves and… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“ Aleksei with his impossible curls so very like her own, yet less seemly perhaps. Such hair is somewhat fairy-tale in a… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
“To demonstrate is to show clearly & deliberately, and to describe is to give a detailed account in words. That thing called… — Olaotan Fawehinmi Copy Share Image
When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love,… — Martin Prechtel Copy Share Image
“The pride the duchess had felt seemed to leave her and become absorbed through the king’s eyes, where he picked it apart.” — Tony Del Degan Copy Share Image
“This morning, I see the lead in my glass tumbler. A slim, bright glint, a silverfish. I feel it collecting in my… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something… — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
“She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sun shined and winked through wind-rustled leaves to paint the roadway with an ever-shifting mosaic of light and shadows.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem… it is… — William Henry Hudson Copy Share Image
I was trying in 'The Power of the Dog' to write a brutally accurate in-your-face, if you will, description of 30 years… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“His presence suddenly made things feel off-kilter, gorgeous as if being crushed in lush velvet while cascading off the edge of a… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
