“Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.” LanguageWrittenGenerationsCivilizationSucceedFindingsWritten Language Author:Charlton Laird
“The first step to finding a God-written love story is handing the pen to the true Author of romance.” FirstsStoriesRomanceStepsWrittenFindingsLove StoryPensFirst Steps Book:Authentic Beauty, Going Deeper: A Study Guide for the Set-Apart Young Woman Source: Authentic Beauty, Going Deeper: A Study Guide for the Set-Apart Young Woman
“What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that work! Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.” WorldWayWellsStoriesAbleCoursesReadingHoursWrittenInformationSourceFitFindingsTake MeAnother WorldGemsWell Written Author:Linda Sue Park
“Some things tend not to work so well for science - things that rely on substantial written contributions by key experts are a case in point - but even there I tend to keep an open mind, because it may just be a case of finding the right formula.” MindWellsMayCasesWrittenKeysFindingsExpertsRelyContributionFormulasOpen MindKeep An Open Mind Author:Aubrey de Grey
“If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.” IfsSeemsReadingBitsWiseWrittenMastersFindingsPleasantNonsenseAmusementMockery Author:Francois Rabelais
“What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction.” ArtLanguageWrittenParticularFindingsArt IsOccasionsPoetry IsMarvelousAdequateDysfunction Author:Adrienne Rich
“I like to always wash the slate clean, and reinvigorate my spirit to be connected to the characters that I am doing. I am finding new ways to allow myself to soar beyond the parameters of what the writers have written. My key is to commit, and love your character.” WayCharacterSpiritWrittenLove YouKeysFindingsAnd LoveCleanConnectedCommitNew WaysSoarSlateParameters Author:Giancarlo Esposito
“When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.” LittlesBeautifulWrittenFindingsHappeningsActresses Author:Samantha Bond
“I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.” ThinkingFeelsWritingSpiritMotherChallengesCreativeWrittenFindingsCreative Spirit Author:Teddy Pendergrass
“At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.” WritingMayAnswersPleasureWrittenFindingsDisturbed Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey
“I ended up [doing video] meeting Gillian [Grassie] at the same time that we were getting together a book. We ended up working on it, and she recognized that I had a flair for certain things, and we've worked through it together so that the writing could be really good. It was the perfect partnership, just finding my literary voice and figuring out how comedy translates to the written word.” WritingBookTogetherCertainVoicePerfectComedyWrittenFindingsMeetingsVideoPartnershipTranslateWritten WordFlair Author:Zach Anner
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” PeopleThinkingMindBelieveHomeSchoolScienceReligionBeliefForceLeaderImagineWrittenCenturyIgnoranceFindingsPatientLibraryGuidesIgnorantBitterAshamedScience And ReligionResentOrganized ReligionUneducatedScience ReligionIgnorant PeopleThinking MindWillful IgnoranceRovingEducated And Uneducated Author:Isaac Asimov
“Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingHelpingFeelingsSecretWrittenMaterialsHonorPaperFindingsAskingUnderestimateDescribing Author:Anne Lamott
“In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.” PeopleIfsWayWritingMindFirstsHas BeensMadeImportantRealStoriesHappensTurnsLeftBitsProcessPiecesWrittenHappenedHeardInvolvedFindingsImportant ThingsVersionsGossipHuntingQuestioningLocationVisitingIntriguingLeft OutPertinent Author:Samuel R. Delany