Describer Quotes & Sayings

I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it. — Amity Gaige

This time, the anger in her voice wasn't there, and the tears were beginning to overflow her lower lids, starting their slow tracks down her cheeks. She looked old, and tired, and like the woman I'd only ever seen in pictures taken before I was even born. She looked like someone who could have loved me. — Mira Grant

Writers and filmakers, that is, people who describe the world, suffer from an occupational disease. They never experience moments in life quite spontaneously. You always look at yourself from the outside. Even as a child I always observed myself and the world. I believe that everyone who chooses this path in any way, who chooses to be a describer of life, suffers from this condition. It's like a mental obsession. It can be a great pity too. It robs you of a certain joy in spontaneity. — Michael Haneke

Women will always be beautiful no matter what, and that's their specialty! — Esha Gupta

I have always got medicine I want to give to people. — Terry Gilliam

An unkind describer might refer to her face as like a party nobody's turned up to. — David Mitchell

I'm really not good at dressing up and being glamorous. — Sienna Miller

What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz Von Foerster

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health. — Kurt Vonnegut

She was tired of being the one who cried. — Rainbow Rowell