T Quotes
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“The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.”
“The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.”
“The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.”
“The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.”
“The writing of headline is one of the great journalistic arts. They either conceal or reveal am interest”
“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.”
Source: History as the Story of Liberty
“The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.”
“The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!”
“The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.”
“The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.”
Source: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
“the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever”
“The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.”
“The writing of the poetry is natural. It's the feeling of being connected to someone which moves the pen...”
Source: Afterthoughts of an Epiphany: Reflection of Words of Wisdom
“The writing of the record didn't take long, because I just have a huge stack of papers and I just pluck from the stack. It took a long time because it's very expensive to make records; in fact, I think it's a complete rip-off.”
“The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.”
“The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men
“The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.”
“The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.”
Source: Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition
“The writing of You've Got a Friend was one of the most incredible experiences because it was mostly inspiration. It just came to me almost as we hear it.”
“The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.”
“The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.”
“The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.”
“The writing process is sort of like when you've got no electricity and you've gotten up in the middle of the night to find the bathroom, feeling your way along in the dark. I can't hardly tell you what I do because I really don't know.”
“The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.”
“The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.”
“The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.”
“The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. English was the novelist Joseph Conrad's third language, and much of that seems piquant in his use of English was no doubt colored by his first language, which was Polish. And lucky indeed is the writer who has grown up in Ireland, for the English spoken there is so amusing and musical. I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench.
In some of the more remote hollows of Appalachia, children still grow up hearing songs and locutions of Elizabethan times. Yes, and many Americans grow up hearing a language other than English, or an English dialect a majority of Americans cannot understand.
All these varieties of speech are beautiful, just as the varieties of butterflies are beautiful. No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens not to be standard English, and if it shows itself when you write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.
I myself find that I trust my own writing most, and others seem to trust it most, too, when I sound most like a person from Indianapolis, which is what I am. What alternatives do I have? The one most vehemently recommended by teachers has no doubt been pressed on you, as well: to write like cultivated Englishmen of a century or more ago.”
“The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.”
“The writing that most interests me isn't about narcos or sicarios or police or whatever. It's about the victims and the survivors, and about the suffering and trauma that so many in Mexico and Central America endure, and that is all around us whether we notice it or not.”
“The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.”
“The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.”
“The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, as one would in a diary. As a child I used to write my diaries backwards in cursive. No one else could understand them. I think it trained me to be bold and admit feelings that I might feel otherwise scared to write down.”
“The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance. It was part of the plan for our eternal progress. Without temptation, sickness, pain, and sorrow, there could be no goodness, virtue, appreciation for well-being, or joy."”
“The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.”
“The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.”
“The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.”
“The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.”
Source: A History of Warfare
“The written record is by far the more important component in an appellate court’s decisionmaking, but the oral argument often elicits helpful clarifications and concentrates the judges’ minds on the character of the decision they are called upon to make.”
Source: My Own Words
“The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers.”
“The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.”
“The written word can make one pause and contemplate. It can make a reader sigh to dream or question a belief in considerable depth. But all of that is nothing if those words fail to touch the heart and make one feel.”
“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”
Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“The written word has its limits and its challenges, for the primal sound in the whole world is that made by the human voice, and the likeness of this human voice must be rendered in dots and strokes...Yet I never forget that the voice, too, is important...Don't mumble or hesitate. Speak...in a loud voice, clearly, and without fear.”
Source: Emperor of China: Self-portrait of K'ang-Hsi: Self-Portrait of K'ang-Hsi
“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“The written word imparts a gravitas the spoken word lacks. The underlying assumption is that time and thought has been expended on what was written, even if that is not the case.”
Source: UnSend: Email, text, and social media disasters...and how to avoid them
“The written word is a powerful thing, you have to be careful with it. - Silvertongue”
Source: Inkheart
“The written word is all that stands between memory and oblivion. Without books as our anchors, we are cast adrift, neither teaching nor learning. They are windows on the past, mirrors on the present, and prisms reflected all possible futures. Books are lighthouses erected on the dark sea of time.”