“I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.” WayTryingChoicesSpeakMy OwnStonesSentences Book:Otherland: City of Golden Shadow Source: Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
“In my own life, I have noticed when I have been meeting directors, that the same sentence with the same inflection can be said by a man, like: "Get me this." But if the same thing is said by a woman, it's seen as harsh and unacceptable. That always fascinates me.” IfsMenHas BeensSaidMy OwnDirectorsMeetingsSentencesHarshMy Own Life Author:Meryl Streep
“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingI CanBookSelfFeelingsDreamBeautifulMovingMy OwnOne ThingPossibilityTypeSentencesRisingSomedayMentorParagraphTypewritersGreat WritersRising Up Author:Gina Berriault
“Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.” FirstsHumansPersonsI CanStoriesEyeMotherReadingVoiceLinesMy OwnSentencesInward Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally hate an illustration of a character on a jacket of a book. I never want to have someone show me what the character really looks like - or what some artist has decided the character really looks like - because it always looks wrong to me. I realize that I prefer to kind of meet the text halfway and offer a lot of visual collaborations from my own imaginative response to the sentences.” WorldWantLooksKindBookCharacterShowsArtistHateRealizingMy OwnReaderOffersDecidedResponseSentencesVisualsCollaborationShow MeImaginativeHalfwayJacketsIllustration Author:Jonathan Lethem