"Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill." — J. D. McClatchy

More Distill Quotes

This quote is filed under Distill Quotes, one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on.… — Beck
• Confronted with a challenge to distill the secret of sound investment into three words, we venture the motto, Margin of… — Benjamin Graham
• To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum,… — Harry Houdini
• Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important… — Martina Navratilova
• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics… — Carol Muske-Dukes
• Control, edit and distill. — Van Day Truex
• Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. — Robertson Davies
• A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed… — Cyrano de Bergerac
• Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words.… — Al Hirschfeld
• Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening.… — Terry Goodkind
• Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? — Marc Chagall
• If you could distill this down to a single principle its that the best marketers in the world know MARKETS… — Perry Marshall

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