“I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been people at the edges of history that we know very little about. I wanted to use them in a story and bring them back into the public's consciousness. Similarly with mythology: everyone knows some of the Greek or Roman legends, and maybe some of the Egyptian or Norse stories too, but what about the other great mythologies: the Celtic, Chinese, Native American?” PeopleKnowsLittlesStoriesUseWantedConsciousnessEdgesI RealizedMythologyChineseGreekNativeLegendsNative AmericanEgyptianCelticNorse Author:Michael Scott
“It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about” ThinkingMomentsWantedSleepConsciousnessAwakeningMisfortunesAdam Author:David Lodge
“What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did.” WritingLongSeemsWantedMy OwnEffortConsciousnessGoneMemoirVersionsExpectingSooner Or Later Author:Kevin Brockmeier
“I think it's interesting, from a creative point of view, to have witnessed the loss of consciousness on a national level and on a cultural level - Bush had 91 percent support in the polls after 9/11. We wanted to kick some ass!” ThinkingWantedLossInterestingLevelsViewsConsciousnessSupportCreativePercentPoint Of ViewAssKicksPolls Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“I guess I think that sex and desire and humiliation are central to my experience of consciousness - to my experience of humanness - and I wanted to explore the ways that they circle around and approach and fail to add up to love, or the ways that those three terms - sex, desire, love - can in some lights seem synonymous and in others like elements entirely alien to one another.” ThinkingWayLightSeemsWantedDesireThreeSexTermConsciousnessFailingElementsApproachAddCirclesAliensHumiliationHumannessDesire Love Author:Garth Greenwell
“I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.” WantedConsciousnessDrugConsciousUnnecessaryHallucinogenic Drugs Author:Fran Lebowitz
“He remained, weeks after awakening, in that period of early-morning consciousness that allows easy re-entry to dreaming. His limbs still tingled with the residue of sleep, and most days he wanted badly to allow it to overtake him again.” StillsDreamWantedEasySleepConsciousnessMorningWeekPeriodsAwakeningLimbsEntryEarly MorningRe Entry Author:Dave Eggers