Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
The story of the Internet is this incredibly strong, exciting change.
It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.
No one wants to read an apologetic book.
I think that if you have a strong narrative, if the idea of the song can be boiled down to the basics, it won't change that much.
Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama, convincing and interesting characters, a strong story-line, and some kind of magic in the writing.
Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
Usually, when special effects get in the way, it's because the story isn't strong enough. If you don't start with a strong screenplay, it's easy to fall back on special effects, thinking it's going to carry you. But it never works. It's just tiresome.
Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.
In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.
no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.
I can go off-point, I can go off-word, I can go off-paragraph, but I can never go off message.
Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.
Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.
I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.
It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.
I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
A woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel 'Go With Me' in my hand, and I took it to be nice. 'Yeah I'll probably read five pages,' I thought. But once I started, I could not put it down.
I write fast, I write beautifully, I write convincingly.
