Meanings Quote by John Edgar Wideman Download Open image “Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings.” — John Edgar Wideman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Meanings Naturally Over Stories Time
Stories are one thing that will be constant in life. Whether told, written, reenacted they are a fundamental part of human nature. — Jessica Shirvington Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives. — David Antin Copy Share Image
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood. — Marcus Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written. — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Too much is made for us; too much is given to us - even those of us who are underprivileged. The poverty is given… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I'm very hard-nosed and cold-blooded and I can walk past a drowning man. If I have someplace else to go, well, tough s**t. I… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
You have to be a minor superhero just to get to be a dignified man, and that's kind of exacerbated for men of color. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
That's been my routine for years and years... Up early before everybody else, before I get connected, before I get bugged, before I have… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable. That's one of the beauties of African American life. There was this thing called slavery… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
That's one of the beauties, I think, of African American life. There was this thing called slavery and adjustments were made. It literally destroyed… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuitous deconstruction as a result… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“(Sartre) (The world is full without me, as in Nausea; the world plays at living behind a glass partition; the world is in an… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
You can't change the hand your dealt but you can change the way you play the game — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writers begin changing the instant they append 'The End' to a novel. Readers begin changing the moment they encounter that same phrase. And even… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance… — Giles Foden Copy Share Image
I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“Have you ever given anyone a red rose?" Grant asked. I looked at him as if he was trying to force-feed me foxglove. "Moss… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh Copy Share Image
“Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don’t have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
