Attention Quote by Nigel Kneale

I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual…

— Uta Barth

The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded…

— Philip Guston

A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

— Donald Miller

I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or…

— Julie Delpy

I wanted to write you a story about magic. I wanted rabbits appearing from hats. I wanted balloons lifting you into the sky. It…

— Shane Jones

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story…

— Joan D. Vinge

Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for…

— Rebecca Solnit

“In the end we're all writers, because each one of us has the power to write our own story.”

— M.P. Sharma

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

— Zoey Deutch

You have to write your own story, your own graph and rhythm.

— Chunky Pandey

“I said on the phone to my mother, “I think I’m going to write the story of the Burgess kids.” “It’s a good one,”…

— Elizabeth Strout