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Quotes About Vivid

The concept of a writer writing a vivid and accurate scene in a language transparent and devoid of decoration so that we see through to the object without writerly distraction suffers the same contradiction as the concept of a painter painting a vivid and accurate scene with pigments transparent and devoid of color, including white and black—so that the paint will not get between us and the picture.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind — vividly, forcefully — that good writing, which stops with clarity and logic, doesn't.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully...
~ Samuel R. Delany
Y sigo pensando que, a pesar de haber vivido ya tantos veranos, aquél fue el más fabuloso de todos.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
ojos profundos y de luz vivísima y se movía en el agua como un pez.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
We have less time than we knew and that time buoyant, and cloven, lucent, and missile, and wild.
~ Annie Dillard
Tues. April 16 - Coney Island! Ate only pink things. Threw up. It was worth it.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets threewise silverflamed
~ Anthony Burgess
It was very cally and vonny, with one bulb in the ceiling with fly-dirt like obscuring its bit of light, and there were early rabbiters slurping away at chai and horrible-looking sausages and slices of kleb which they like wolfed, going wolf wolf wolf and then creeching for more.
~ Anthony Burgess
Cuando un hombre desea utilizar palabras ardientes, debe usarlas mientras siguen en llamas.
~ Anthony Trollope
Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No." The man gives an exaggerated sigh. "I know this argument, and I don't buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it's their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it's raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." The
~ Sol Stein
Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy.
~ Ice Cube
If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Rant
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
~ John Hawkes
Be passionate bleed colors & words which waters both soul and body
~ Rabisha
My mind is like a Zoo with no cages... Watch where you step
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other, vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home.
~ Tara Estacaan
When it is imperative to make a vivid offering towards life then a simulated introspection for all possible dimensions may be endured to establish a relationship with external world and world within
~ Amit Gupta
Other labs have extended his work, finding that women recall more emotional autobiographical events, more rapidly and with greater intensity, than men do. Women consistently report more vivid memories for emotionally important events such as a recent argument, a first date, or a vacation.
~ John Medina
would paint, to him in all the glowing colours of youthful memory, the marriage pomp she remembered viewing in her infancy;
~ John William Polidori
The inside of my head is out of control. It is on fire. It is snowing. It is a wild jungle. It is an Arctic wilderness. It is everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will happen, all at once.
~ Emily Barr
Contrary to its legend, Paris does not offer many distractions; or, those distractions that it offers are like French pastry, vivid and insubstantial, sweet on the tongue and sour in the belly.
~ baldwin james xi
Nel vivere ci sono davvero tanti significati, e una quantità incredibile di scene, più numerose delle stelle, tante da non poterle ricordare a una a una, inonda il mio spirito, però mai più cercherò di attribuire alla vita dei significati, mai più cadrò in errore così brutto e meschino
~ Banana Yoshimoto