About Quote by Eleanor Catton

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total…

— Richard Diebenkorn

I'm just such a Luddite, and I want to write books about Luddites.

— Ann Patchett

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in…

— Eleanor Catton

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle'…

— Daniel Suarez

When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with…

— George Stephen

And we [The Futurist artists] must invent dynamic designs to go with them and express them in equally dynamic shapes: triangles, cones, spirals, ellipses,…

— Giacomo Balla

I see my subject as an orchestration of shapes, patterns, shade, cast shadows, tonal groupings and aerial perspective.

— Bill Luff

The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most…

— Roy Kesey

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel:…

— Emma Donoghue

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed…

— Olivier Theyskens