A Quote by Walter Kirn

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Walter Kirn

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Curious Fiction Line Looks Nest Shiny Story Taking Whatever

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Walter Kirn
American - Novelist
Born: August 3, 1962

Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

Gael Garcia Bernal

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

Jessica Stockholder

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Alice Munro

The story line of the Bible is the story line of God taking the initiative in seeking out a people who are His very own.

Alistair Begg

When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.

Leslie Jordan

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

Tim Pratt

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

Laini Taylor

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.

J. Courtney Sullivan

Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

Jonathan Franzen

In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.

Nick Antosca

I don't know what that line is between fiction and non-fiction that other people have in their minds, but to me, when I'm writing, it's just like whatever the next sentence should be is the next sentence. It's not this artificial division.

Sheila Heti

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

Winston Churchill

Style is something you can use, and you can be like a magpie, just taking what you want.

David Hockney

When you're a second- or third-generation migrant, your ties to your heritage can feel a little precarious. You're a foreigner here, you're a tourist back in your ancestral land, and home is the magpie nest you construct of the bits of culture you're able to hold close.

Ash Sarkar

My method is the magpie's: I look for shiny things. That is, I look for concrete material details of daily life, and I look for vigorous prose, which is the only kind I can read for very long. That effectively bars a great deal of scholarly work, but I didn't feel its loss.