Explanation Quote by D. T. Max Download Open image “As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.” — D. T. Max ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explanation Mistrust Narrators Writing
There's a difference between telling a story and not providing an explanation because you just don't do it well or pull it off. — Brad Anderson Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain. — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
Explaining is a difficult art. You can explain something so that your reader understands the words; and you can explain something so that the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make… — Lisa Marbly-Warir Copy Share Image
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I didn't go through anyone's garbage. People brought what they felt I needed to know to me. — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
People are always invoking evolutionary psychology for everything. "Why do men hang around asking women out? Oh, to improve their reproductive success," every damn… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
“Protein, so far as we know, does not replicate itself all by itself, not on this planet anyway. Looked at this way, the [prion]… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours.… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation. — Brad Blanton Copy Share Image
Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What most needs explanation is not why some people are criminals, but why most people are not. — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] will spend long periods of time explaining to people why he won't use it. At the end of the explanation, nobody knows… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Being a moral realist I see normative ethics as a search of the truth about our obligations and a search of explanation; the idea… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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