Quotes about lenses
lenses stories visceral
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. Len Wein
lenses looks titles
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
lenses these-days seems
These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
lenses immortality
I would like immortality.
lenses stories way
Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
lenses textbooks stories
You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.
lenses world choir
I am a Mormon woman, I am not orthodox. It is the lens through which I see the world. I hear the Tabernacle Choir and it still makes me weep. Terry Tempest Williams
lenses world forests
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry. Jonathan Lethem
lenses want cognitive-dissonance
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you. Chris Abani
lenses needs way
I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that. David Douglas
lenses world saws
Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen. Dennis Lehane
lenses four cameras
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture. Alberto Korda
lenses cinema duration
The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.
lenses looks unreasonable
We do not see the lens through which we look. Ruth Benedict
lenses looks weakness
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident. Stephen Covey
lenses familiar needed
I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. Gretchen Rubin