#texture

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it. ↗

— William Shenstone

#break #creep #entangled #found #generally

The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world. ↗

— George Combe

#enjoyment #friends #i #indifferent #invaluable

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#elegant #foundation #literature #logical #once

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

What interested me was not news, but appraisal. What I sought was to grasp the flavor of a man, his texture, his impact, what he stood for, what he believed in, what made him what he was and what color he gave to the fabric of his time. ↗

— John Gunther

#believed #color #fabric #flavor #gave

Music is about textures as well as melody. ↗

— Ken Hill

#melody #music #textures #well

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#i #i think #needs #obstacles #romance

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures. ↗

— Ang Lee

#arts #book #character #chinese #classic

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. ↗

— Paul Scott

#becomes #our #past #present #texture