Best objects & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...

“It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.”

Ifs Writing May Ideas States Failing Conditions Example Objects Duty Perfection Faults Innocence Caution Atonement Hinder Endeavour Vigilance Contagion Admonition

Author:Samuel Johnson

“if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.”

People Ifs Should Writing Believe Art War Written Objects Newspapers Telling The Truth Sole

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart. My songs bring images to the listener's mind. The object is to transport my listeners to another place, some place sacred and spiritual that will make them glad they took the ride.”

Writing Mind Firsts Able Spiritual Song Objects Musician Sacred Glad Memorable Melody Composer Listeners Always Believe Transport

Author:Bradley Joseph

“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.”

Writing Art Ends Process Growth Objects Definite Oaks One Direction Acorns

Author:W. H. Auden

“I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.”

People Writing Literature Fiction Fantasy Objects Horror Research Science Fiction Non Fiction

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.”

Want Writing Reason Life Is Fighting Novel Clear Objects Reader Racism Complicated Reason Why Voting Yes Or No Against Racism

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.”

Writing Heart Soul Eye Objects Particular Direct Photographer

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.”

Writing Novel Identity Objects

Author:Jay Neugeboren

“The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.”

Men Writing Objects Letters Universal Reputation Idols

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.”

Knows Feels Should Writing Reason Body Age Objects Wind Bird Safety Wings Instinct Oneself Conviction Honestly Abundance Yield Compelling Feathers Daylight Seeming Migration

Book:A Naturalist's Life of New York

Source: A Naturalist's Life of New York

“As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.”

Knows Want Writing Mind Lines Objects Produce Picks Discovering Not Interested Predictable

Author:Paul Simon

“I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.”

Writing Long Book Objects Proof Writing A Book Earnestness Geologist

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“I don't believe that a writer 'gets' (takes into the head) an 'idea' (some sort of mental object) 'from' somewhere, and then turns it into words, and writes them on paper. At least in my experience, it doesn't work that way. The stuff has to be transformed into oneself, it has to be composted, before it can grow into a story.”

Way Writing Believe Ideas Stories Turns Grows Stuff Objects Paper Don't Believe Oneself Transformed

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.”

Thinking Knows Want Writing Able Objects Prose

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“I have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.”

Thinking Should Writing Stories Objects

Author:Michelle Stuart

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”

“Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.”

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