John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.
Raising a daughter is hard work. There's no other way to describe it for me.
In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say...
Victor wrapped his fingers over my hand, pressing his face against my palm. “You’re the bravest girl I’ve ever met. I’m so incredibly proud of you.” “Who knew that one day the word someone would use to describe me is brave. Life is very u...
Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin repeatedly taken to the point of death or threatened with death - being forced to witness abusive acts...
But this first clumsy attempt showed her that the imagination itself was a source of secrets: once she had begun a story, no one could be told. Pretending in words was too tentative, too vulnerable, too embarrassing to let anyone know. Even writing o...
The realistic style is easy to abuse: from haste, from lack of awareness, from inability to bridge the chasm that lies between what a writer would like to be able to say and what he actually knows how to say. It is easy to fake; brutality is not stre...
In writing I try to pare down the descriptive bits. If I feel that I could say something in as few words as possible, then I would rather do it than to go on padding. One should describe sufficiently to give the reader a sense of what one feels, but ...
As your lover describes you, so you are.
It doesn't require jargon to describe the soul.
Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
Those who oppressed us described us as the Dark Continent!
Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?
There are various wounds to describe our hurts;the deepest one is the most painful.
The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.
I don't really know how to describe my personal style.
