Bigs Quote by D. J. Enright

I think you can say so much about a character in lots of subtle ways.

— Lynne Ramsay

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

— Lois Lowry

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in…

— William S. Burroughs

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius,…

— Andre Aciman

“A writer's style should be direct and personal, his imagery rich and earthy, and his words simple and vigorous. The greatest writers have the…

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use…

— Mo Yan

“I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.”

— Sherman Alexie

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

— Benjamin Bratt

“I was recently cautioned about some 'difficult' characters in a work-in-progress, and I was surprised at first to hear them labeled as such. On…

— Lisa Lutz

“Heroes don’t come in standard sizes and shapes. They’re not always blond and tall and strong and fearless. Real heroes have flaws and fears…

— Jeff Altabef

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm almost sometimes too subtle in my acting.

— Stellan Skarsgard