Elizabeth Sims Quotes

Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

Elizabeth Sims

• Balls
• Flow
• Narrative
• Plot
• Interruptions

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• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• My inspiration is endless; I can't define it. It is a constant flow and evolution. In general, I'm taking it from everywhere. People get nervous when they walk with me, as I'll see something and suddenly have to text it to myself.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Inspiration
  • Evolution
  • Flow

• Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Story
  • Economics
  • Narrative

• From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • Flow

• I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • Popular
  • Hunger

• Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • Most
  • Filmmaking
  • Narrative

• My kids are in front of the computer 24x7 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.

  

  Kajol
  • Kids
  • Control
  • Stop

• Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

  

  Han Suyin
  • History
  • Single
  • Flow

• I mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Small
  • Hand
  • Beginning

• My stories do have plot. They're not just scattered language; they're controlled, toward an end.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Language
  • Stories
  • Plot

• Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Speed

• Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Building
  • Appearance
  • Balls

• Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Fate
  • Narrative
  • Tvs

• As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.

  

  Ian Gardner
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Flow

• I try to shut my brain down as much as possible. And let the melodies flow, if possible.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Flow

• When fear dissolves, you no longer separate yourself from this single flow of immense force. Love is continuity with infinite life force, a Oneness of being with no separation. Love is the key to opening to this flow of life force.

  

  David Deida
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Single

• The imagery is getting a little more enigmatic. I'd like to think that it's getting a little more evocative without being more narrative.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Narrative
  • Imagery
  • Evocative

• I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Life
  • Book
  • Friends

• Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Facts
  • Fantasy

• In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Moving
  • Spring
  • Winter

• There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

  

  Steven Soderbergh
  • Art
  • Create
  • Meaning

• The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.

  

  C.P. Snow
  • People
  • Country
  • Death

• Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.

  

  Elizabeth Sims
  • Balls
  • Flow
  • Narrative