Allowing Quote by Kehinde Wiley

“Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”

— José Saramago

“This complete ignorance of the realities, this innocent view of mankind, is what, in my opinion, constitutes the truly aristocratic. For”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But stories don't only speak; they are spoken to, by the circumstances under which they are written.

— Tom Junod

When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.

— J. A. Jance

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“should these tales ever become public, whether you have not given us a page of talk for every single idea which two words might…

— Walter Scott

Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are…

— Zadie Smith

But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or…

— John Ruskin

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

— Quentin Tarantino

“Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can…

— Joanne Harris

It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the…

— Stephen Crane