Always Quote by Katherine Dunn Download Open image “Donald Westlake's lean prose and deadpan delivery are engaging, as always.” — Katherine Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Always Delivery Engaging Lean Prose Writing
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I love the deadpan. It's such a strong go-to. It lets the audience make their own decisions about what you're thinking. — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Westerns have often been considered the ugly stepchild of genre writing...” — Johnny D. Boggs Copy Share Image
Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson… — Wayne Thomas Batson Copy Share Image
Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical.… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
“All writers are like bomb-throwers, whether they attack with dense academic prose or jazzy riffs of stream-of-consciousness writing.” — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I always think, OK, this is good, but I'll do it better next time. "And so we beat on, boats against the current. .… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is… — Larry Wilmore Copy Share Image
Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity. These are frequently artists and performers, adventurers and wide-life devotees.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings. — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
It's always great to see old friends, especially those I have not been able to see in 15 months. — William Regal Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I have really good lateral movement. I've always had quick lateral movement. — Austin Rivers Copy Share Image
There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
Mythology is something that always has opportunities to explore. 'It' has been on Earth for millions of years. He's been in contact with humans… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
It's not writing in the traditional sense, but I've always said that the writing process continues on the set and even into the editing… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I always watch my matches back 100 times afterwards because that's how I improve. This is something I've always done, even in NXT. — Mandy Rose Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
