“The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.” MenDoeLinesPossibilityHe ManBecomingPagesFamiliarAcquireParagraphIllustrationEncyclopedia Author:Jorge Luis Borges
“I think the writing and the casting and all of that has so much to do with actors becoming their characters. I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.” IfsThinkingWritingCharacterHelpingActorsRolesWrittenBecomingPagesCasting Author:Scott Michael Foster
“Becoming a writer can kind of spoil your reading because you kind of read on tracks. You're reading as someone who wants to enjoy the book but also, as a writer, noticing the techniques that the writer uses and especially the ones that make you want to turn the page to see what happened.” WantKindBookUseTurnsReadingEnjoyHappenedBecomingPagesTrackTechniqueSpoilNoticing Author:Homer Hickam
“What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.” YoungGeniusBecomingTerriblePagesHarmAccustomedOutrageWagnerYoung And Old Author:Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
“As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.” SoulStoriesBodyWould BeWrittenWindBecomingPaperPagesSkinsHotSurfaceDryFablesCrawlingPapyrus Author:Salman Rushdie