#ate

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#blood #cinema #cut #everywhere #hoses

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball! ↗

— James Taylor

#bald #ball #difference #fortunately #i

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#innate #learned #least #listening #looking

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#almost #am #color #concentrating #concrete

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

#fortunate #fortune #should #who

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. ↗

— Allen Tate

#cannot #confederate #connected #connection #dead

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. ↗

— Allen Tate

#criticism #dramatic #experience #form #indicate

We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. ↗

— Allen Tate

#particular #poem #restate #says

Friendship's the privilege of private men; for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial. ↗

— Nahum Tate

#friendship #greatness #knows #men #private