“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMayTwoBookCharacterTermNovelImagineSeeingReadyInventionIntimate Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.” YearsIdeasWarFactsHistoryRecordsImagineWrittenEventsHorrorWeaponsYears AgoTraditionAncientBoxesMythologyInventionInnocentErasTemptingWeaponryPandoraBiological WeaponsOral TraditionPandora's BoxWritten History Author:Adrienne Mayor
“I'm skeptical that the novel will be "reinvented." If you start thinking about a medical textbook or something, then, yes, I think that's ripe for reinvention. You can imagine animations of a beating heart. But I think the novel will thrive in its current form. That doesn't mean that there won't be new narrative inventions as well. But I don't think they'll displace the novel.” IfsThinkingWellsHeartMeanFormNovelImagineCurrentsMedicalInventionNarrativeThriveAnimationSkepticalRipeTextbooksReinvention Author:Jeff Bezos
“We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find and of achieving realization of this find. What we imagine does not necessarily take on concrete form and may remain in a state of virtuality; whereas invention is not conceivable apart from its actually being worked out.” ShouldMayDoeStatesFormImaginationImagineAchieveDutyLuckyInventionRealizationConfusedConcrete Book:Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons Source: Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons