“More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.” RealSeemsLife IsNovelRichPagesComplexesReal LifeUnpredictable Author:Candice Millard
“Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.” WantMindHeartAsksSimplePagesUnderstoodComplexesSurfaceComplexityHeart And MindUnspoken Author:Jane Hirshfield
“For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.” LiteratureGamesPagesMental HealthComplexesConcrete Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“There's a certain pressure you put on yourself to use the comics page to full advantage that can focus your mind to a pinpoint, and when the juices are flowing, that's incredibly exciting. When you've managed to fit a complex set of actions or a complicated emotional passage into a single page there's the sense of satisfaction that I suspect a sculptor gets from chipping away at a piece of stone and ending up with a fully-realized work of art.” MindArtUseActionCertainFocusPiecesEmotionalFitPagesAdvantageStonesExcitingPressureComplexesSatisfactionComplicatedSuspectsWorks Of ArtPassagesJuiceSculptorsChipping Away Author:James Vance
“The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the top of your head. It's the combination of that meticulousness and the power of the prose and, I think, the depth of the characterizations and the risks that I've taken with language that give the books their clout. And that's where I get pissed off at a lot of my younger readers.” ThinkingGivingWritingBookLanguageTakenRiskReaderPagesComplexesDepthCombinationProseOutlinesDenseTabloidsPissed OffCharacterizationClout Author:James Ellroy
“We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both of those experiences are really important to communicating information, especially when that information involves complex ideas.” TwoImportantIdeasDifferentUseInformationDesignPagesComplexesCommunicateDifferent ThingsPassagesTypographyTwo Different ThingsLayout Author:Michael Bierut
“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.” LooksMayBookTechnologyPagesComplexesOddTranslateThursday Next Book:The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel Source: The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel