Imagination Quote by Darrell Huff Download Open image “Don't be a novelist --- be a statistician. Much more scope for the imagination.” — Darrell Huff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Imagination Novelists Scope Statistician
Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a novelist, so I just try to write really great narrative. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already. — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but I couldn't figure out how you could be a novelist and make any money, which… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist. — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The purely random sample is the only kind that can be examined with confidence by means of statistical theory, but there is one things… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's 'big lie'; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
“Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and fifty tails.” — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying where you are for or agin it. — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods… — Darrell Huff Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh?… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
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