“Why did Ted Geisel end up writing and illustrating for young minds? He has specific imagery in the book, and we never would have moved beyond the discussion phase, if we couldn't have found an expression for The Lorax, dimensionally, that was true to the soul of what comes through in his simple line drawings, on the page.” IfsWritingMindBookSoulEndsYoungFoundLinesSimpleExpressionPagesMovedDrawingDiscussionPhasesImageryYoung MindsIllustrating Author:Christopher Meledandri
“"Study Bible" is the expression used for Bibles that include significant explanatory notes, usually at the bottom of the page, sometimes in the margins. Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.” SometimesUsedStudyInformationExpressionPagesNotesBottomPhotographSignificantMapsArticlesSiteMargins Author:D. A. Carson
“Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.” SometimesFilmFormCertainBitsSpaceWhitePoetExpressionPagesRelateAbstractPoetry IsWhite Space Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I am a poet, bard, scop, minnesinger, trobairitz who is driven by sound and the possibilities for vocal expression, the mouthing of text as well as intentionality or dance on the page.” WellsSoundPossibilityPoetExpressionPagesDrivenVocalBardsIntentionality Author:Anne Waldman
“I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.” BookSeemsEmotionCuttingExpressionPagesAppreciationSentencesChosenFiftyUrgesPossessedBrevity Book:Dreams From My Father Source: Dreams From My Father
“Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.” WantTwoBookInterestSecretMinutesFieldsExpressionPagesReflectionRomanticDepthTheatreIntimateStalkingHopeless RomanticLiterary LoveDepth Of Field Book:Vintage Ondaatje Source: Vintage Ondaatje
“The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the purpose of my story, she should have it with her. I sat on my dad's bed and flipped through page after empty page. No stamps. No exotic locales. No travel-worn smudges or creases. Just the ID information and my mother's black-and-white photo which if it were used in a psychology textbook on the meaning of facial expressions would be labelled: Obscenely, heartbreakingly hopeful.” IfsShouldStoriesWould BeUsedMotherPurposeFoundWishBlackWhitePsychologyInformationExpressionDadBedPagesEmptyShould HaveMy DadSatHopefulBlack And WhiteWornStampsExoticTextbooksDrawersPassportsFacialFlippedHandkerchiefsFacial Expression Book:A Complicated Kindness: A Novel Source: A Complicated Kindness: A Novel
“The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.” PeopleWantFeelsShouldTryingI CanUseTurnsSoundFiguresExpressionPagesComplainingFeel GoodDirtyPhrasesMonkeysTurn-on Author:Stephan Pastis
“If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.” IfsKnowsMenKindMayMeanBeautifulHeavenPoorTalkingKnow HowPoetExpressionPagesSakeExcuseFascinatingSolitaryDroppingPoor ManSomething Beautiful Author:J. D. Salinger