“Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.” WholeStoriesReadingAsksImaginationAbilityCreativeWrittenReaderPagesWhole LifeLife ExperienceWritten WordCreative Imagination Author:Katherine Paterson
“I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingMomentsStuffAbilityScenePagesSpontaneity Author:Ben Stiller
“Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.” WorldGivingDoeRealAbilityPagesGive MeWideReal WorldWorld Wide WebWeb Page Author:Clifford Stoll
“As I see it, the major requirements for a strong and able rendering are an understanding of a work's structure, voicing, and trajectory; an ability to execute the details on the page from largest to smallest; technical command, and hopefully a connection with the overall expressive impulse (though the latter is not at all necessary to give a good performance).” GivingAbleStrongUnderstandingAbilityMajorsPagesConnectionsPerformancesStructureDetailsCommandHopefullyImpulseLatterSmallestRequirementsExpressiveRenderingTrajectory Author:Michael Hersch
“Directing for me is the ability to take the words from a page and share my vision with the world.” WorldAbilityVisionSharePages Author:Denzel Whitaker
“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.” IfsFeelsWritingHumansBodyTurnsLanguagePresidentAbilityStudentsMoonPagesMake SenseQueensPhrasesOutsidersHuman ExperienceFacilityHowlHomecomingHomecoming Queen Author:Karen Karbo
“I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.” AbleLastsFoundSocialAbilityPureNewsPagesIntelligentDecadesNewspapersCommentElsewhereEntertainingPertinent Author:Elayne Boosler
“but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.” WorldLinesAbilityShapesPaperPagesLettersSeriesArrangementsInkConjuring Author:Lynda Barry
“Charlotte leaned forward across the table. “The Dark Sisters never mentioned what use they intended to make of your abilities, did they?” “You know about the Magister.” Tessa said. “They said they were preparing me for him.” “For him to do what?” Will asked. “Eat you for dinner?” Tessa shook her head. “To – to marry me, they said.” “To marry you?” Jessamine was openly scornful. “That’s ridiculous. They were probably going to blood sacrifice you and didn’t want you to panic.” (page 78)” KnowsWantSaidUseDarkAbilitySacrificeBloodPagesTablesDinnerRidiculousPanicPreparingThey SaidMarry MeCharlotteBlood Sacrifice Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel