Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
– Stephen King
Tag: create
Quotable 451
In order to create the universal you must pay very great attention to the specific.
– Lorraine Hansberry
Quotable 450
Dialogue has to create a life. It has to be self-sustaining. Conversation is definitely not dialogue.
– Sam Shepard
Quotable 330
Art is a summoning of attention. To create it requires the highest directed focus, as does experiencing it.
– Sven Birkerts
Quotable 298
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. Whenever you create a character you must allow for the existence of irrationality.
– Rita Mae Brown
Quotable 85
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Quotable 49
There are many reasons why novelists write — but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world.
– John Fowles