Quotes About Description

If I could have gone on describing to you the beauties of this region, who knows but I might have made a fine addition to the literature of our age?

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

How do we describe the fact of human existence? At a certain point, perhaps, style fails us. Language, even and in particular at its most evocative, becomes less of an aid and more of a difficulty.

le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu'il est essentiellement celui d'une victime. Il n'y a que les victimes qui peuvent décrire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient nécessairement le langage hypocrite de l'ordre et du pouvoir établis

They are descriptions of what real life looks like, not prescriptions for how to get life.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

I like Tom Wolfe's description of the country: There's America. The coasts are like the parentheses. In between is the country.

Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

I remember tearing up the first time I read Nabokov's description, in 'Speak, Memory,' of his father being tossed on a blanket by cheering muzhiks, with its astonishingly subtle foreshadowing of grief and mourning.

The total number of people that do a job that has the same description as mine in the entire world is fewer than 10. There's a lot of effort looking for life in space - that's a lot of what NASA does, but they're not necessarily looking for the kind of life that can hold up its side of a conversation.

The move from description to prescription, from saying what happens to passing judgment on what should happen, is a creative one, a fundamentally human act. The world is just the world, unfolding according to the patterns of nature, free of any judgmental attributes. The world exists; beauty and goodness are things that we bring to it.

Es (das T-Shirt) hing ihm auf Halbmast über einem kalkweißen, schuppigen Bauchstreifen, der sich wie ein toter Fisch über dem Jeansbund wölbte.

I only wish I could describe it more accurately, because it's not the design I'm trying to describe as much as the feeling it evokes when I think of it. A sense of home how does one describe that?

I don't want to struggle to describe things anymore. I want to let experience happen without the filter of intellect.

I ran into a friend of yours today," he told her. "Oh, yeah?" "Tall. Hot. Batshit crazy?

To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.

The feminist in me, who is small and sleeps a lot but can be scrappy when provoked, took umbrage at this description.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is.

The result is autobiographical, although whenever someone's asked me over the course of these last three years just what the book is about, I've usually avoided such a description. An autobiography promises feats worthy of record, conversations with famous people, a central role in important events. There is none of that here.