“All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.” NeedsFirstsBookLanguageLinesLevelsAliveReaderPagesFinals Author:Ali Smith
“A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.” YearsFirstsPlayGamesLaughingAliveTearsBabyTrainingMy SisterI SmileSmile And Laugh Author:Ali Smith
“I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.” IfsThinkingKnowsFirstsMadeCareEvilAliveMediaPerceptionMusic IsInterviewsTrickeryNecessary Evil Author:Jack White
“We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s why I went to poetry in the first place, that’s why I stay with it, that’s why I’ll never leave it.” FirstsHelpingStoriesAliveStaying AliveHelping Each Other Author:Marie Howe
“Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.” FirstsWellsAliveTheater Author:Wole Soyinka
“Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...” FirstsLittlesWaitingEmotionAliveSeeingExperiencePaintImpressionColourUnseenTubesPalette Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are. This capacity for caring can illuminate any relationship: marriage, family, friendships-even the ties of affection that often join humans and animals. Each of us is born with some of it, but whether we let it expand or diminish is largely up to us. To care, you have to surrender the armor of indifference. You have to be willing to act, to make the first move.” PeopleFirstsHumansCareMovingBornAnimalAliveRiskWillingDiscoveryCapacityAffectionCaringSurrenderIndifferenceTiesDiminishArmorFamily FriendsHumans And Animals Author:Arthur Gordon Webster
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.” FirstsChildrenLittlesRealAliveDangerConsequenceVictimMedicineTerrorMedicalImaginaryFashionable Author:Maria Edgeworth