Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took… — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm… — Edan Lepucki Copy Share Image
The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
From [Nikolai] Medtner himself, who I do not think was the best possible advocate of his own works. But that's my opinion:… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
I've been doing photography in one form or another for, oh golly, over seventy years. I don't carry cameras. I used to.… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
To me, feminism in literature deals with the female characters being in some way central to the thematic concerns of the book,… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level. — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The thematic core of 'X-Men' is tolerance. It's that for those of us who are different in any way - in a… — Lauren Shuler Donner Copy Share Image
I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As… — Alfonso Cuaron Copy Share Image
Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking in any big thematic or conceptual terms - especially in this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] when I was… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Making photos is helpful of course to master the craft. To get comfortable with the camera. Learn what a camera can do… — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films… — Graham Phillips Copy Share Image
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all… — Scott Rudin Copy Share Image
I never have a thematic intention at the outset. The story informs the theme for me rather than the other way around.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a… — Gerard Cox Copy Share Image
I tend not to dwell on the parallels between chess and business, chess and the martial arts, or any two things for… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image