Crafts Quote by John L'Heureux Download Open image “Using language like jungle growth isn't the solution to telling a story.” — John L'Heureux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Growth Jungle Language Solutions Stories Telling A Story
When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Stories that can be told through language and words don't need to be filmed. — Jiang Wen Copy Share Image
Language changes the flavour of the people, it changes the way you tell a story. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
“A child’s stories are simpler to understand because the language has not been developed to the point of high abstraction. An adult tells stories… — John S. Savage 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 stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end. — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
So writing stories is not easier in comparison to the playwriting or translation; the stories are easier in league with them. — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now." — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the line of… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“on the other hand, who would be a more dedicated gay-basher than a gay school board member? look at congress.” — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale down your… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.” — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image