Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.

One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

It's what people don't say that is often the most revealing.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Sometimes with good writers you don't spot the theme, but when you come away you realise there has been one.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.

...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

It made me alive to the fact that the most important thing sometimes is what isn't said - to prepare for moments of revelation that can be read entirely on actors' faces without dialogue.

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said.

Even silence speaks.