Acquire Quote by Rose Tremain

Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.

— Henry James

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

— Henry James

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to…

— John Banville

The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the…

— John French Sloan

The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence.…

— May Sinclair

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future.

— Allen Ginsberg

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who…

— Linda Grant

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills…

— Peter Galison

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that…

— S. I. Hayakawa

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes