#tell

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. ↗

— George Orwell

#best #books #know #tell #those

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#complement #each #i #i think #intellectual

I am so happy that I didn't go to school and I didn't have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly. ↗

— Yanni

#anyone #correctly #fingers #go #happy

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#boy #dog #eldest #embodies #even

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#give #give me #intellectualism #me #mechanism

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#i #kind #pacing #same #someone

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#incredible #more #nonfiction #over-the-top #story

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#down #enough #goin #gonna #i

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#because #contemporary #i #i think #live

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#been #create #explore #i #kind