Capacity Quote by Will Self

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating,…

— Lorrie Moore

So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about…

— Rostam Batmanglij

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

— Chuck Wendig

Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

— Jonathan Adler

There were long stretches where each of us was engaged in a private world of rapidly shifting vignettes. Always I was overwhelmed by the…

— Howard Thurman

I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus…

— Eric Idle

Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein and his…

— Daniel Kleppner

With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting…

— George Saunders

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

— Sandra Cisneros

The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from…

— Elia Suleiman

Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes.…

— Amitava Kumar