Quote by Peter Mendelsund Download Open image ““The outline. Not the detail. It was blurred.”” — Peter Mendelsund ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“As I stared out of the train window, the scenery became a blur, as unclear as my thoughts and feelings.” — Linda Gillard Copy Share Image
“She kept an eye on the horizon, or where she thought it was, and understood that not everything that existed could be seen. Not… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“They lived in a blurry world, those two, where clear, consistent intentions weren't required.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Once again I glimpsed the way in which departure ripped the veil from ordinary life, revealing things that were normally kept hidden.” — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“Writing. It is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“In the light everything is obvious. There are no secrets. You simply have to look in order to see.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“That was it. I never bothered filling in the details. The details didn't matter.” — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“And I knew then that there would be no telling me what he saw. I understand somehow that certain images, certain sounds, could not… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Everything around her was in a fog; the intense light that always shone in his aquamarine eyes was the only thing in focus, but… — Mirella Muffarotto Copy Share Image
“Authors are the curators of experience. They filter the world's noise, and out of that noise they make the purest signal they can-out of… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading.” — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“Writers reduce what they write, and readers reduce what they read. The brain itself is made to reduce, replace, emblemize... Verisimilitude is not only… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“When we see plays performed on the stage, we work with a different set of standards. Hamlet is ours to picture as we'd like,… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes.” — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“If books were roads, some would be made for driving quickly - details are scant, and what details there are appear drab - but… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“Simulacrum worlds such as these require that their constituent parts, their contents, seems endless. The authors leads us down a narrative path, but we… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“If we don't have pictures in our minds when we read, then it is the interaction of ideas - the intermingling of abstract relationships… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
“One should watch a film adaptation of a favorite book only after considering , very carefully, the fact that the casting of the film… — Peter Mendelsund Copy Share Image
