“Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.” WritingFactsFacesCertainLostProcessNaturalLevelsViewsCivilizationFundamentalsSavedOptimisticSelectionBest WorkNatural SelectionRegression Book:The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn Source: The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn
“I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.” WantWritingMayBookIdeasMightCertainCreativityPiecesInformationProduceInspiredBroads Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.” PeopleWritingTryingDoeHappensCertainCultureBornFictionMinistersNovelists Author:Gore Vidal
“If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.” IfsWritingI CanIdeasHappensCertainStuffSeeingStageComicHanging OutStuff Happens Author:Sarah Silverman
“I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.” ShouldWritingPlayCertainActingNew YorkMonthsStudiosNineNine Months Author:Wallace Shawn
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.” ShouldWritingMayHas BeensSometimesActionLawCertainJusticeCasesImpossibleWrittenChangedOughtConcernedAll ThingsUniversal Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle