Complicated Quote by Chris Van Allsburg Download Open image “Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.” — Chris Van Allsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complicated Even Most Premise Simple Start Stories Very
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made. — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
Some of the biggest hits have had simple stories narrated beautifully. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
Whoever wants to tell a variety of stories ought to have a variety of beginnings. — Marie de France Copy Share Image
“My own [story] is the simplest ... it hardly amounts to more than a convincing proof of my existence - and yet I find… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. — John Barth Copy Share Image
There are many ways of understanding simple things, but generally the opposite is true for difficult ideas — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
'The Polar Express' began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, 'What if a boy gets on… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Following my muse has worked out pretty well so far. I can't see any reason to change the formula now. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
People have asked me a lot, 'What comes first? The pictures or the story? The story or the picture?' It's hard to describe because… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I don't like to travel. Yet all my books seem to involve a journey. — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Some people may contend that there is no image more charming that a child holding a puppy or kitten. But for me that's a distant second. When I see a child clutching a book... to his or her tiny bosom, I'm moved. Children can possess a book in a way they can never possess a video game, a TV show,… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive. — James Haven Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The one thing I absolutely hate about social media are the people who abuse it. Whenever I see a person who constantly posts negative things about their lives, people and themselves; I wonder if that person wants to be unhappy. If you continue to focus on all the negative in your life you will continue to attract more of it...We… — Jazmin Garcia Copy Share
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share
I have learned so much from my dad. Perhaps the biggest thing I've learned from my dad is how to be prepared at all times... whether it's for a big court case or a hostile media interview. My dad always says "Stick to your points, focus on what you are there to get across, and try not to get sidetracked."We… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share
The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a complicated and… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated. — Robert Maxwell Copy Share Image
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process. — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
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