Nature Quote by David Lodge

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words....

— Robert Breault

An aphorism is a synthesis of poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, a didactic parable, an ideological concept, in practice it 's…

— William C. Brown

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

— Robert Breault

“There are a colorful rainbow of events that make up one sentence in every narrative. It takes the literary in its entirety to paint…

— Deanna L. Lawlis

Aphorisms are literature's hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.

— James Geary

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

— Anatole Broyard

“One of the great books of our time. I should know; I wrote it." (apocryphal)”

— Tim Roux

“Good writers are avid readers. They have absorbed a vast inventory of words, idioms, constructions, tropes, and rhetorical tricks,”

— Steven Pinker

“What this typographical distinction should make immediately apparent in the passage is the highly subsidiary role of narration in comparison to direct speech by…

— Robert Alter

An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.

— Mason Cooley

“analysis of the story will sometimes undercut our antepredicative grasp of it).”

— James K.A. Smith