Illusory Pattern Quotes & Sayings

Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses. — Ray Bradbury

The shock of collision was like the smashing of boulders in the landslide at Nesson. Damen felt the familiar battering shudder, the sudden shift in scale as the panorama of the charge was abruptly replaced by the slam of muscle against metal, of horse and man impacting at speed. Nothing could be heard over the crashing, the roars of men, both sides warping and threatening to rupture, regular lines and upright banners replaced by a heaving, struggling mass. Horses slipped, then regained their footing; others fell, slashed or speared through. — C.S. Pacat

I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them. — Fran Lebowitz

I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it. — Leo Tolstoy

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity. — William J. Brennan

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen — Lois McMaster Bujold

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?) — Gary Hamel

I hate walking up to strangers. — Joel Stein