#telling

Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty. ↗

— Walter Moers

#imagination #love #storytelling #walter-moers #beauty

Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#could #ever #every #learn #like

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#access #always #been #build #direct

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you. ↗

— James Whistler

#arguing #i #i am #telling #you

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. ↗

— Jack White

#consider #down #hip-hop #i #instruments

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. ↗

— Theodore White

#america #book #came #columbus #court

We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#believe #demands #different #documentary #faith

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#again #anyone #because #betrays #dead

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#go #inspiration #need #script #somewhere

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims. ↗

— Juan Williams

#airplane #am #attacks #bigoted #dressed