Categories Quote by Stanley Fish

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

— Nora Roberts

Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt…

— Gene Wolfe

All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.

— Lucy Grealy

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

— John Lewis Gaddis

In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first…

— William Hazlitt

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

— Kurt Elling

What I look for in a project is whether the storyline excites me.

— Fahadh Faasil

We don't outline, so we don't have prospective tasks to divide up. It's just, we start at the beginning and talk the first scene…

— Ethan Coen

One sees what one wants to see when there is in mind a pre-conceived notion.

— Hal Hellman

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

— Howard Nemerov

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

— Neil MacGregor

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

— John Rawls