Inspirational Quote by John Hodgman

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

— Tim Vine

I prefer to bring these to the service of story rather than to let them replace narrative.

— James Gunn

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical…

— Liz Williams

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood… storytelling is intrinsic to biological time, which…

— A. S. Byatt

I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of…

— George Saunders

Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way, but it…

— Abbas Kiarostami

The being level speaks the language of art, music, color shape and pattern directly -- a language that requires no words -- is not…

— Thomas Campbell

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself…

— Walter Mosley

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can…

— Ann Aguirre

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

— George Saunders

There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in England deal with - a specificity of language that is…

— James Avery

Being able to communicate what your vision is clearly and with specificity is the most important thing a director can do.

— David Slade