Momentum Quote by David Shields

“This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the…

— Terry Pratchett

The fact that creative powers come from an area of the mind that seems to be independent of the conscious will, and often emerge…

— Northrop Frye

It sometimes happens that you just know... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number…

— Paolo Pellegrin

“Writers use narratives to select from everything there is, and make contexts by putting the pieces into relation; that’s what writers do, they make…

— Paul Shepheard

Word, image, and sound all must have primacy in the development of the narrative.

— Fred Ritchin

I've always thought abstractly - through theme and variations rather than narrative.

— Robert Wilson

“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.

— David Hume

Ideas result from the collision of metaphors inside the head.

— Ray Bradbury

“Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things—like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a…

— David Mitchell

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what…

— Daniel Bell

The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as…

— Chad Smith