Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them.
You’re always working at the margin of what you don’t understand, that’s the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time.
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through
the eye and not the noggin.
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after!
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.
We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.
May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.
In the future, I'd like to continue being honest with myself and admit when I'd be better off asking someone else to illustrate my writing.
Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
I used my pants to illustrate.
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.
I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
One of my main decisions when accepting the job of Children's Laureate was that I must continue working on picture books. If I don't write and illustrate for some time, then I begin to question who I am.
Few issues better illustrate the limits of the Obama administration's 'reset' with Russia than the crisis in Syria.
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
My daughters are in kindergarten and second grade, so many of the stories they tell, write, or illustrate are about each other and our dog, Buster.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.
I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail.
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.
I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon
Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin.
All the great artists illustrate their approach to life in the work they make.
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact".
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
Whenever the kindly uncles and aunts came over for a cup of tea and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, it was always the same: an 'authoress', and illustrate my own books.
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
I think people learn best and are more engaged when it's just normal relatable situations that illustrate the principles they're discussing.
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
Many people think of the Bible as a book of moral teachings with stories sprinkled through to illustrate the teachings. But it's a lot BETTER THAN THAT...the Bible is a single true story with teachings sprinkled through to illustrate the story.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.
Can fiction teach us? Absolutely. Fiction has the power to illustrate place, era, and atmosphere in vivid detail. But it is not Anthropology for Dummies.
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it.
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
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