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“The most dangerous ideas are not those that challenge the status quo. The most dangerous ideas are those so embedded in the status quo, so wrapped in a cloud of inevitability, that we forget they are ideas at all.”
― Jacob M. Appel, Phoning Home

“Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Prime emphasis should be given to subtle suggestion - imperceptible hints and touches of selective associative detail which express shadings of mood and build up a vague illusion of the strange reality of the unreal. Avoid bald catalogues of incredible happenings which can have no substance or meaning apart from a sustaining cloud of colour and symbolism.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Notes On Writing Weird Fiction

“Where will this all end up? Will we completely lose our ability to be private, respectful, subtle? Will romance die? Often I long for a simpler time when break ups weren't made a trillion times worse by photo tagging, and rather than spelling it out for people you could be irritated by something and not feel as though you had to voice your gripe with convenient hashtags such as #dogaccidents, #cake and #snow in case it becomes a trending topic.”
― Alexa Chung, It

“I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work, where the author studies things of little use...

{Writing about Isaac Newton}”
― Christiaan Huygens

“Leave it to a dude to roll in with your technique, but use a jackhammer instead of jeweler’s screwdrivers.”
― Roberto Hogue, Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed

“Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?”
― David John Richards

“The world communicates subtly. Most people don't hear or see the signs because they're so wrapped up in their day-to-day lives.”
― Doug Cooper, Outside In

“That image of a chessboard â€� an epic contest between two giant players, carefully nudging their pieces around the globe as part of a grand strategy â€� has indeed become a familiar metaphor for the Cold War. But it is misleading. Many decisions remembered today for their farsighted, tactical brilliance were denounced in their day as weak-willed. And big, public gestures often made less difference than the small, hidden ones.”
― Sam Tanenhaus

“A literally perfect style should conceal itself so completely behind what it expresses that it goes unnoticed.”
― Julien Torma, 4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché

“The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.”
― Lyle W. Dorsett, Surprised by Love: Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis

“People here notice when you have gunfights in train stations!”
― Lance Charnes, Doha 12