#crib

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. ↗

— Garry Winogrand

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She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#calm #destruction #scribbles #writing #anger

I have never subscribed to the Dirty Pallet school of painting. ↗

— Peter Wright

#i #never #painting #pallet #school

Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#black #black and white #choices #choose #freedom

The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her, suddenly, to me, the letters were no longer hostile and unwieldly. I had command of them, with my head and with my hand... The words struck, as clear and as pure as a bell peal on a winter morning. ↗

— Theresa Breslin

#matteo #sinistro-scribe #writing #inspirational

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#character #describing #everything #given #i

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#back #blew #born #described #everything

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#contestant #criticism #describe #did #different

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#describe #i #less #monk #more

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#democratic #democrats #described #everyone #fan