“When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.” WayYearsLongStoriesWantedMotherDesireBlackWhiteChangedPagesHundredDecidedEightScreensPoundsShort StoryBlack And WhiteNever ChangeGoatsParagraphLaptops Author:Tea Obreht
“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city -- here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light into the darkness as a landing beam for UFOs, and everywhere neon oracles and twisting screens predict happiness and good fortune, announce singers and comedians and magicians in residence or on their way, and the lights always flash and beckon and call.” WayChildrenBookDreamLightBlackWhiteCitiesDarknessFortuneScreensSingersComedianFlashMagicianCastlesGood FortuneVegasLas VegasUfoPyramidsBeamLandingPicture BooksOraclesNeonResidenceWhite LightSphinx Book:American Gods Source: American Gods
“Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible.” BookTodayBlackWhiteSilencePaperEmptyScreensCanvasSheets Book:The Politics of Experience Source: The Politics of Experience
“Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.” MomentsFilmFacesActorsBlackFilledSilentScreensSilent Films Author:Serge Daney
“What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.” MenWantTryingHumansStoriesBlackTermWhiteAudienceBrotherHeroBandMythScreensBlack And White Author:Tom Hanks