Exposition Quotes

53 quotes by 48 authors

Inexperienced fiction and creative nonfiction writers are often told to show, not tell - to write scenes, dramatize, cut exposition, cut summary - but it… — Laurie Alberts
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles,… — William Strunk, Jr.
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough.… — Barbara Jordan
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
Part of the appeal was that Medawar was not only a Nobel Laureate, but he seemed like a Nobel Laureate; he was everything one thought… — Richard Dawkins
Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds. — G. H. Hardy
Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because… — Steve Albini
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not… — Georges Lemaitre
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
To say what we should be or do and not link it with a clear exposition of what God has done about our failure to… — Graeme Goldsworthy
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds… — Les Standiford
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions… — Morris Raphael Cohen
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find… — Les Standiford
Today solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is the grace and need of our time. Society will be restored and renewed when all its members… — Peter Julian Eymard
Art employs method for the symmetrical formation of beauty, as science employs it for the logical exposition of truth; but the mechanical process is, in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart… — David Ogilvy
Whenever we pride ourselves upon finding a newer, stricter way of thought or exposition Â… we lose something of the ability to think new thoughts.… — Gregory Bateson
A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. To be effective the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — William Butler Yeats

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