Vignettes Quotes

• Enseguida dije que la vida era una serie aleatoria de viñetas bellamente compuestas, vagamente unidas por una cadena de personajes y tiempo.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Character, Together, Strings

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.10, Penguin

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• Los recuerdos son como luciérnagas que recorren la superficie de mi mente, mostrándome aquí y allá imágenes tan nítidas y vívidas que recupero el aliento maravillado antes de que la viñeta desaparezca, hundiéndose como un guijarro en las arenas movedizas del arrepentimiento y la recriminación.

  Susan Kay

  Regret, Memories, Firefly

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

  David Bowie

  Writing, League, Trying

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.40, Melville House

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• Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Stories, Snapshots

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• I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

  Kate Bernheimer

  Mean, Ideas, Feminine

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• Michael Ondaatje’s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All his books were odd, all of them ‘unfinished’ the way Chopin’s Études are unfinished: no wasted gestures, no unnecessary notes.

  Amitava Kumar

  Book, Home, Thinking

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• Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.

  John Berendt

  Running, Book, Writing

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• It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

  George Saunders

  Attitude, Desire, Certain

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.

  Sasha Grey

  Sex, Past, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sabes que esta viñeta y aquella otra deben ir una al lado de la otra, sabes que un determinado giro de frase que has estado guardando probablemente funcionará mejor dentro de una determinada sección de la narración. Como en una actuación de jazz, la escritura vive o muere por lo que se produce en ese momento. Pero ese momento está precedido de una larga preparación.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Long, Preparation

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I like doing live things and plays. You can perfect the laugh or extend the laugh, you can get them on a roll. Versus improv, which I hate. Put it all together. They're more vignettes. Improv makes me slightly anxious because I feel for them.

  Eric Idle

  Hate, Play, Perfect

  "Eric Idle: the Pio Interview". Interview with Kyle Seasly, whitmanwire.com. May 13, 2013.

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• A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think autonomously for itself.

  Will Self

  Thinking, Stories, Biopsy

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• Think like a photographer. Look at every vignette in your home like it's being shot for a shelter magazine and style accordingly.

  Jonathan Adler

  Home, Thinking, Style

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• Así que el año está repitiendo su vieja historia de nuevo. Hemos llegado una vez más, gracias a Dios, a su capítulo más encantador. Las violetas y las flores de mayo son como sus inscripciones o viñetas. Siempre nos causa una grata impresión abrir de nuevo estas páginas del libro de la vida.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Spring, Book, Years

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• I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Buttons, Fiction

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Me siento unido a todas las canciones de este disco ['Modern Vampires Of The City'], pero sí, creo que 'Young Lion' tiene algo especial. Es bastante diferente de cualquier canción que hayamos hecho antes porque las voces están entre dos melodías instrumentales de piano muy sencillas y es casi como algo que llamamos una viñeta, es como una miniatura.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• El deseo de expresar en una forma de arte y de componer un cuadro y una viñeta ya sea humorística, burlesca o poética viene simplemente del deseo de componer una imagen para el cine. No es culpa mía que cuando voy a Ramala haya un puesto de control y por eso entra en mi película. Dígame una manera de evitar esa imagen politizada. El hecho es que la policía está en todas partes, el ejército en todas partes y la ocupación es total. Ya sea una historia de amor o un thriller, colocas la cámara y estas realidades cruzarán el encuadre.

  Elia Suleiman

  Art, Humorous, Army

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Two, Lovely, Littles

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• Einstein and the Quantum is delightful to read, with numerous historical details that were new to me and cham1ing vignettes of Einstein and his colleagues. By avoiding mathematics, Stone makes his book accessible to general readers, but even physicists who are well versed in Einstein and his physics are likely to find new insights into the most remarkable mind of the modern era.

  Daniel Kleppner

  Book, Historical, Mind

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• With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process of getting all of my notes typed up, then scanning through the notes, trying to extract or find certain vignettes that seem like they might write well - that might have a potential for good energy, shape, etc. And then at some point I start stringing these together, keeping an eye on the word count.

  George Saunders

  Eye, Writing, Trying

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• Había largos ratos en los que cada uno de nosotros estaba inmerso en un mundo privado de viñetas que cambiaban rápidamente. Siempre me sentía abrumado por la cantidad de seres humanos que fluían y refluían como las mareas del mar.

  Howard Thurman

  Sea, Numbers, Long

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• La alegría de 'Crash' era que todo giraba en torno al trabajo. Fue mi primer papel de verdad. Antes de eso, era una línea aquí y allá, tal vez una escena. Crash" eran cinco escenas, un hermoso arco, una pequeña viñeta mía. Realmente significaba algo.

  Michael Pena

  Beautiful, Real, Joy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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