Best Lenses Proverbs
267 Lenses quotes by 211 unique authors
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I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
— Len Wein
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If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
— Len Wein
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In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
— Len Wein
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It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.
— Len Wein
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Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.
— Len Wein
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The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?
— Len Wein
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Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
— Len Wein
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
— Len Wein
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When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is…
— Len Wein
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People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake…
— Len Wein
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I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get…
— Len Wein
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Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished…
— Len Wein
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When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I…
— Len Wein
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If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.
— Orson Welles
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Like wind-- In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong that, even when it is bent flat,…
— Dag Hammarskjold
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In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright…
— Hugh Laurie
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If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare.…
— Annie Proulx
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If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will…
— John O'Donohue
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But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries…
— Sidney Poitier
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Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
— Parker J. Palmer
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Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.
— Ellen Hopkins
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The bat was looking at Theo and Theo was having trouble following his own thoughts.The bat was wearing tiny sunglasses.Ray Bans,Theo could see by the…
— Christopher Moore
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Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there.…
— Sarah Dessen
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But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you…
— Roland Barthes
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The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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