Comfortable Quote by Lynn Abbey

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

— William James

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.

— Justin Hartley

There's no such thing as getting comfortable in style. You have to have an expanded mind, dive in and try it. Sometimes you may…

— Quincy Brown

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.”

— Orrin Woodward

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

— Orrin Woodward

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space…

— Martin Rees

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters…

— Joan Didion

I am moved more by melodies, song structure, and evocative textures.

— Geddy Lee