About Quote by Linn Ullmann

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so…

— Carrie Coon

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

— Jack Kerouac

I'm used to writing songs and songs-I can fill em up with symbolism and metaphors. When you write a book (Chronicles, Vol. 1), you…

— Bob Dylan

“Symbols are something [the writer] uses simply as a matter of course. You might say that theses are details that, while having their essential…

— Flannery O'Connor

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to…

— Ray Bradbury

Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a…

— Margaret Mitchell

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

— Stephen King

My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and…

— Shane Carruth

It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the…

— James Wan

What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the…

— Miroslav Penkov

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

— W. Somerset Maugham