Linear Quote by Nathan Englander

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

— Steven Spielberg

You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily…

— Anonymous

That awkward moment when someone is telling you a straight up lie when you know the truth.

— Kylee

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're…

— Jonah Hill

It looks like the writer is telling you a story. What the writer is actually doing, however, is using words to evoke a series…

— Samuel R. Delany

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman

I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling…

— Sol Stein

“Could it be we stifle our children's genius by languaging them too quickly away from their hearts and into the straight and narrow confines…

— Victor Villaseñor

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what…

— Terry Eagleton

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…

— Sam Keen

Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,…

— John Carroll

A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

— Renata Adler