Duncan J. Watts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.

  • Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

  • Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  • I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

  • Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

  • I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

  • Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

  • Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didn’t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But I’d seen it once -Woods

  • It’s a known fact that in certain contexts people’s great strengths become their epic failings.

  • Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.

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