Describing Quotes

There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you call it up in the reader. That's what writers do when they're good. Margaret Atwood
Good You Evoke Evoking About Something Writers Between Call Reader Clinical Up Quite Difference Describe Describing
Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. Steven Biko
You Fight Yourself Black Emancipation Marks Out Seek Blackness Road Merely Towards Forces Subservient Committed Being Against Stamp Use Your Describing Started
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. George Orwell
Family Control Members Phrase Wrong Come Perhaps England Describing Near
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. Niels Bohr
Language Atoms Poet Too Only Poetry Facts Concerned Creating Used Describing Nearly Images
Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Stendhal
Pleasure Spoiled Often Describing
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there. Michael Nesmith
You Think Out Kind Arc Seeing About Around Ultimately End Up Artist Going Just Where Just Kind Crawling Describing
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning. Nas
Life Morning Me Opportunity Wake Up Problems Every Think Enough Else Those Bad About Someone Slump Something Through Had Put Like Look Smiling Talking Were Heard Wake Up Done Really Describing Things
Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. Robert Bork
Democracy Mercy Way Merely Another Another Way American Legislative Representative Being Plan Describing Basic
How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see. Umberto Eco
People Sky Looking Enough See Sees Never He Simply Feel Nevertheless Does How Person Listing Stopping Describe Describing Thinks Tongues
Our best theory of describing space at a fundamental level is probably string theory. Alan Guth
Best Space Our String String Theory Theory Describing Fundamental Level
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that. Aleksandar Hemon
Word Distinction Bosnian Between Nonfiction Fiction Literature Describing
I have read and heard so many stories from people all around the world describing how they've found their own reason to believe through Arch Enemy, and that genuinely inspires me and keeps me going. Alissa White-Gluz
Me People Enemy World Own Believe Arch All-Around Through Inspires Read Around Genuinely How Heard Going Stories Reason Many Describing Found Keeps
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. Anne Tyler
Events Long Chapters Characters Paragraph Write Delving Ready Begin Maybe After Breaking Then Page Pages Describing Two
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. Armstrong Williams
Prayer Benefits Sense About Talk Well Well-Being How Provides Often Patients Being Describing
The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded. Arthur Slade
You Try Too Much Feeling Imagination Too Prolong Able Horrible Horrible Things Writer Know Make Sort Without Making Goal Frightening Going Grey Succeeded Then Much Really Your Describing Things Imagine
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat! Benedict Cumberbatch
Home Live Twitter Took Back Once Some Window Someone He Put Blinds Got Doing Accommodation Opposite Off Shirt Flat Who Describing Actually
You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative. Caroline Ghosn
You Generation Negative National Think This Generation Back Adjectives Kind Over Around Coming Get Same Unfairly Rhetoric Again Describing Millennials
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. Dana Carvey
Sometimes Impossible Joke Silliness Abstract Sort Comic Sensibility Describing Star Near
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Diablo Cody
Herself Everywhere Poetic Invisible Feels How Judy Describing Suddenly
Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it. Donovan
Entity Spiritually Buddhism Close Get Describing Floating
The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth? Dwight Schultz
Three Myth Own Military Hundred Some Had Instance Over Witnesses Were Perpetuating Craft Procedures Bodies Incident Describing Lives
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.' Eleanor Catton
Sense Though Mystery New Been Historical Gold Conventional New Zealand Far Really Describing Novel Zealand Second Set
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts. Elizabeth Peyton
Work Me People Somebody Picture Feelings Painting Other About More Talk Make Make Up Parts Up Than Person Forget Personalities Describing Descriptive Things
When you are developing your style, you avoid weaknesses. I am not good at describing things, so I stay away from it. And if anyone is going to describe anything at all, it's going to be from the point of view of the character, because then I can use his voice, and his attitude will be revealed in the way he describes what he sees. Elmore Leonard
Attitude Good Character You Will Style Way Weaknesses Stay Sees Voice Point Point Of View He Developing Because Revealed Am His Going Anyone Anything Then View Use Your Avoid Describe Describing Away Things
Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. Eric Liu
Health You Win Smart Care Value Think Favor Moral Folks Seem Voters Messages Health Care Metaphors Get Affordable Affordable Health Care Just Etc Then Your Appeal Many Describing Right Start
The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in. Eric Roberts
Me Mind Bit Ease Out Characters Inside Inside-Out Point Outside Part Put Built Subjective Very Little Explanation Paul Little Bit Your Describing
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