"The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is."
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"It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description."
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"Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story."
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"Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament."
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"J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland."
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"Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified."
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"For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else."
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"There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke."
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"The power we call God defies description."
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"Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism."
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"But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach."
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"I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description."
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"I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really."
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