#scribe

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#already #become #competencies #daily #daily life

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. ↗

— Chester Bennington

#blind #blind person #describe #guess #i

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#depends #describe #dig #digging #down

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on? ↗

— David Byrne

#comes #creativity #draw #fixed #i

In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment. ↗

— Dennis Cardoza

#balances #believe #checks #consideration #constitution

When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called "Dead End." The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#called #coffee #dead #dead end #described

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#describe #i #i can #iraq #kerry

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#crushed #describe #down #elite #highly

At one point, they offered me this part to play a drug-dealing, gun-selling butch lady. I don't know how to describe her but she had like a crew cut and stuff. I was like, 'Is this a joke?' And they said, 'No, we think it would be great because everyone would be like, 'Oh, look at what we've done to Charlotte.' I was like, 'Well I can't do that!' ↗

— Kristin Davis

#butch #charlotte #crew #cut #describe

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#coaster #describe #exciting #give #i