Conventional Quote by Leni Zumas Download Open image “Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.” — Leni Zumas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventional Realist Writing
You have to create the space for the possibility of people speaking as they do. If writing is supposed to lead us in any… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers. — Joachim Frank Copy Share Image
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ideologically, I have a lot of problems with that, especially when people toss around that form of story as realism. What's called "realism" is… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process. — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Sometimes you just feel like you could work forever on something and never know when it's done. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I cut hundreds of pages from my book because I felt myself being reiterative or redundant. Sometimes I wanted to leave just hints of… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
I don't know whose sensibility I'm responding to. Until someone starts pushing against what they've inherited and starts making their own decisions about language,… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing. — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
Contrarian thinking at its best simply asks, Is this really true? It speaks up when the politically correct answer or the conventional wisdom doesn't… — Larry Osborne Copy Share Image
Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't wealthy, but… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning… — Seinabo Sey Copy Share Image
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Currency speculation-over a trillion dollars a day-is a tax-free activity. The notion of a tax on "day trades" or other speculative swaps was revived… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
