“Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth--as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.” LongBeautifulPerfectProduceFineDiseaseIllnessComplicatedManagePearlsOysters Author:Frank Loesser
“Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.” WayValuesBitsSimpleProduceCreaturesSurvivalComplicatedAvoidingConstraintsFlocksGuardedAdmonition Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water.” LooksKindLittlesLightBitsWaterProduceStrangeLittle BitModelsGlassesComplicatedInventionMediums Author:Peter Higgs
“Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.” KnowsFeelingsDreamTogetherEmotionProduceComplexesObviousComplicatedGloriousProseRegionsDo You KnowVividAnthologyBlazingIlluminatingHawthorne Author:Chris Bachelder
“I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at it sideways. If I look straight at it, it produces nothing other than what seem like complicated, brilliant designs that fall apart the following morning. In some way stories mature when you're not looking.” IfsThinkingWayLooksImportantStoriesSeemsFallProcessMorningDesignProduceFollowingComplicatedBrilliantMatureFalling ApartSideways Author:Aleksandar Hemon