“To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.” IfsBookMatterMovingArtistChoicesMiddleSubjectsStyleCallingFunctionBlueSentencesCommitSubject MatterOne Direction Book:Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals Source: Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals
“I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.” WayTryingChoicesSpeakMy OwnStonesSentences Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.” FeelsMadeMomentsFilmChoicesSoundNovelDogReaderPhotographySentencesChosenThat MomentCaptureBarking Dogs Author:Jonathan Lethem
“Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.” BeautifulChoicesDifficultPopsSentencesAccurateDifficult Choices Author:Christopher Hitchens