Accounts Quote by Flannery O'Connor

I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the…

— Flannery O'Connor

Technique does not need to be interpreted. It interprets itself. You have to choose the right objects and focus on them precisely and they…

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Each mind has its own method.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

— Raymond Pettibon

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer…

— John P. Kotter

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

— Mason Cooley

The stories leaders and others tell, few of which are true, are a lousy foundation on which to base any sort of science, and…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects…

— George Saunders

You devise ways to tell a story that complies with your sensibility. Style and method are really extensions of your present sensibility.

— Aleksandar Hemon

There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.

— Brennan Manning

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all…

— John Lancaster Spalding