"Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises……" — Steven Amsterdam
"Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand."
More Attention Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they… — Richard Armour
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious… — Chester A. Arthur
- Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of… — Saint Augustine
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing… — Jane Austen
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make… — Lauren Bacall
- A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same… — Michele Bachmann
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will… — Abigail Adams
- I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume… — Amy Adams
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own… — James A. Baldwin
- A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives… — Christian Bale