“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.” WritingYearsDreamRememberNextFatherLeftFiveMinesMonthsScenePagesEightTwinsFragments Author:Tamora Pierce
“Pick up a pinecone and count the spiral rows of scales. You may find eight spirals winding up to the left and 13 spirals winding up to the right, or 13 left and 21 right spirals, or other pairs of numbers. The striking fact is that these pairs of numbers are adjacent numbers in the famous Fibonacci series” MayFactsLeftNumbersPicksSeriesEightAccidentsScalesPairsSpiralsWinding Up Book:At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity Source: At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
“I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!” WritingSongLeftCrazySevenAlbumsEightFlightPlanesNotebookBrazilBlackberries Author:Estelle
“The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.” ChildrenStoriesLeftGeniusDiedEightPianoTwelveGrandfatherEstatesGreat Grandfather Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.” MenGivingMindLostLeftSexFeltHoursMinutesSceneEmptyTiredSlaveAffairPassionateEightInsaneFortyLastingMaking LovePillsMe AloneLasting LoveReally SadPoppingGetting TiredPsychopathicHe Left MeForty Eight Author:Edie Sedgwick
“You have to realize that, about 20,000 years ago, there was a cataclysmic event when an entire rock face collapsed and sealed off the cave. It's a completely preserved time capsule. You've got tracks of cave bears that look like they were left yesterday, and you've got the footprint of a boy who was probably eight years old next to the footprint of a wolf.” YearsLooksFacesNextLeftRealizingBoysRocksEventsBearsYears AgoTrackEightYesterdayCavesFootprintTime Capsules Author:Werner Herzog