Explanation Quote by D. T. Max

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

With novels, you're representing things. You're not explaining.

— Emma Healey

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

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

— Scarlett Thomas

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

I myself do not believe in explaining anything.

— Shel Silverstein

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

— Eugene Ionesco

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

— Maria Edgeworth

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

— Lawrence Wright

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

— William Howard Taft

“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

Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

— Robert Louis Stevenson