Able Quote by Jonathon Keats

Writing a book about [Buckminster Fuller] in the sense of deciding how much to - how much biographically to gloss over and how much…

— Jonathon Keats

To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent.

— Jonathon Keats

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

“In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did…

— Douglas Adams

The only thing that's really important is the stuff he wrote. That's what he cared about, and that's what's worth protecting. The myth and…

— Jack Hemingway

I think that surprisingly few people right now know much about [Buckminster] Fuller beyond the few really iconic points. He invented the geodesic dome…

— Jonathon Keats

“Story ideas had never been a problem for him, there'd always been more ideas than time to write them, he'd reject one perfectly good…

— Donald E. Westlake

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity…

— Alfred de Vigny

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read…

— Erin Morgenstern

“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended, and the…

— Joseph O'Neill