It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Not to act is to act. Not to speak is to speak.
See {631935} for a similar statement 50 years later.
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
Diva has a negative connotation.
Each thing implies the universe.
Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.
the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.
For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?
A story is told as much by silence as by speech.
The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Reticences are as revealing as avowals.
The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.
Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
