Conventionality Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conventionality Conventions Stories
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful. — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.' — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story! — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley 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
This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
If you are not gonna tell the truth,at least tell me a convincing lie. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
... if a person is to be unconventional, he must be amusing or he is intolerable: for, in the nature of the case, he… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The need of an insecure psychiatrist to draw security from a virtuous adjustment to the conventionalities of his time and from a quest for… — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann Copy Share Image
Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that… — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overt hrowing them… — Ellen Louise Demorest Copy Share Image
I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
