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More Quotes
Quotes on wanting and having more.
These quotes explore the idea of 'more' - a director admitting to more confidence behind the camera than as a writer, and a novelist noting how fictional characters can carry more vitality than the people around them. Related pages include Life Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.
- Possibilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion.
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- Nov 07, 2020