Fundamentals Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

— Roy Lichtenstein

People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.

— Bob Dylan

Conversation is interesting in proportion to the originality of the central ideas which serve as pivots and the fitness of the little facts and…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Keep it simple, make it general, and make it intelligible.

— Douglas McIlroy

I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.

— Jillian Bell

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

— Carl Hart

Beyond people, it's every detail, every little thing matters almost in an obsessive way. All of those details matter inside the framework of the…

— Sean Payton

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

— David Mamet

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

Yeah, the fundamentals are really important to me.

— Mac Jones

“As you learn more, the fundamentals become at once simpler but also subtler, deeper, more nuanced, and more meaningful.”

— Edward B. Burger

I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by…

— Anthony Burgess