Considering Quote by Neal Stephenson

Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the…

— Orhan Pamuk

Early on, I settled on the first-person strategy as a way to deal with exposition and world-description issues. As long as the book is,…

— Neal Stephenson

“Writing a history of the world is a ridiculous thing to do. The amount of information is too vast for any individual to absorb,…

— Andrew Marr

“As a rule the tales which get abroad in the world are false. . . . People always exaggerate things. More so, when months…

— Yoshida Kenko

The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I see the world as voices, as colors, as it were. From book to book, I change, the subjects change, but the narrative thread…

— Svetlana Alexievich

What I do with the story itself varies of course, but what I want to do is to present the world so that the…

— Karin Tidbeck

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

— Northrop Frye

Part of our job as storytellers is to show people pockets of the world that they don't know. The more we understand, the more…

— Taylor Sheridan

“every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it”

— Paulo Coelho

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because…

— Nikki Giovanni

“plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.”

— Paulo Coelho