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“You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.”

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Ben Nighthorse Campbell, born on April 13, 1933, is a former U.S. Senator known for his unique background and extensive political experience. He has been active in the American political scene for many years. more

“A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a symptom), this right to intermittent knowledge - I find one of the great advantages of the novel-form ... this intermittence lends in the long run variety and colour to the experiences we receive.”

Ifs Long Running Form Views Novel Perception Advantage Crafts Variety Novelists Colour Contracts Long Runs Symptoms Shifting Intermittent

Author:E. M. Forster

“[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically. Awareness of style as a problematic and isolable element in a work of art has emerged in the audience for art only at certain historical moments - as a front behind which other issues, ultimately ethical and political, are being debated.”

Needs Art Moments Political Certain Behinds Consciousness Audience Issues Awareness Style Fronts Products Elements Historical Notion Crafts Works Of Art Ethical Visibility

Author:Susan Sontag

“There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.”

Way Writing Lays Nine Crafts Sixty

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“There are three necessary elements in a story - exposition, development, and drama. Exposition we may illustrate as "John Fortescue was a solicitor in the little town of X"; development as "One day Mrs Fortescue told him she was about to leave him for another man"; and drama as "You will do nothing of the kind," he said.”

Men Kind May Littles Said Stories Three Development Drama One Day Elements Towns Crafts Another Man Little Towns Solicitors

Author:Frank O'Connor

“Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.”

Giving Writing Humans Character Action Form Quality Misery Crafts Reverse Human Happiness

Author:Aristotle

“Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.”

Ifs Action Causes Wonder Happened Air Effects Events Design Tragedy Surprise Accidents Pity Crafts Tragic Imitation Coincidence Cause And Effect

Book:The Poetics of Aristotle

Source: The Poetics of Aristotle

“The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.”

Humans Fiction Perception Senses Crafts Appeals Abstraction Fiction Writers Human Knowledge

Book:Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with their large vocabularies. By the excesses of their language, these young men and women try to hide their sense of inexperience. With maturity the writer becomes more secure in his ideas. He finds his real tone and develops a simple and effective style.”

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Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.”

Book Difficult Computer

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.”

Way Art Facts Form Given Emotion Situation Events Objects Particular Findings Art Is Objectives Crafts Chains Formulas Sensory Chain Of Events Expressing Emotions

Author:T. S. Eliot

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