“But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint: frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.” HeartLongLawNaturalVicesManifestationFrankVitalityConstraintsSailorSeemingNatural LawExuberanceFiddlers Book:Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales Source: Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” Has BeensLawNaturalSecretBeautyForeverManifestationNatural LawSecret LoveHidden Beauty Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Voice is one of the most elusive qualities in any story. We recognize it when we hear it, but it's hard consciously to create an authentic voice. Somehow voice seems to be the natural manifestation of all the narrative decisions we've made so far. We discover it more than we fabricate it.” WritingMadeHardStoriesSeemsVoiceNaturalDecisionQualityNarrativeManifestationElusiveFabricate Author:Philip Gerard