“If you want to successfully write to market, you need the right tropes, and you need to employ them like a master.… — Chris Fox Copy Share Image
Originally the premise of killing Hitler was fueled by deep traumatic feelings of wishing and fantasizing that if only things had been… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
“the love some girls have for other girls is so gentle & so soft & so fucking beautiful, & these girls deserve… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Normally there are three kinds of roles or tropes for us. We're either the villain because I have a disfigurement and I… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
“I stared at the list, as though willing the murderer's name to appear in red letters before my eyes. I felt I… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We still have our larynx, we still have our minds and we still have our consciousness. We still have this gift to… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
One path I've used a lot is to deeply and thoughtfully consider a trope or a tradition, and then set about taking… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
There's the trope about an impending "global-warming encyclical." The pope is preparing an encyclical on nature and the environment, including the human… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“In the novels, it always seemed best to keep the suspect talking. Inevitably, help would arrive. I really held out no hope… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“So what happened . . . with Rupert?' I asked at last. I was genuinely curious. If I were to be murdered… — Ashley Weaver Copy Share Image
I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth… A mother's love isn't cliché,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre,… — Gore Verbinski Copy Share Image
For someone who is starting out on developing their critical skills, just being aware of its existence is great: it can make… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I try to stay away from tropes, or if there is a trope there, I ensure that it's cleverly written and isn't… — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I don't think it is as a trope or as something in our psyches. There's very little wilderness out there but there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
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