I don't think I'd give advice. That never pays off. That's always a bad idea. If they follow your advice and it doesn't work out, or if they don't follow your advice, somehow you're on the hook for it.
I always advise people never to give advice.
I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.
I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.
We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.
Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.
Influence is all osmosis.
Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.
When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
You might want to comment on that, Honorable.
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.
And isn't it better really to leave things only hinted at?
As a writer, you paint strokes and leave suggestions so readers can create their own pictures. That allows you to know someone by a small action and it saves countless pages of explanation.
the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!
A true masterpiece does not tell everything.
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.
