Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

My favourite writers are always great storytellers, like Bruce Springsteen; I adore Bruce Springsteen. I feel like he doesn't beat around the bush, and he doesn't overcomplicate things. He puts things into layman's terms and tells stories that anyone can understand.

I kind of hate over-explanation in comics.

I feel, in storytelling, people are so afraid that you won't get it unless you pound them over the head.

I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

I can just say exactly what happened.

As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

There is nothing wrong with just telling the story.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all.

I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

I see things with my own eyes, just as if they were the first eyes that ever saw, and then I set about to tell, as best I can, just what I've seen.

Prose is something that is persistent in staying in one place long enough to not only zero in on the dramatic effect of something that might have happened, or something that might have been seen, but also in watching how it played out and thinking about the cause and the effect.