“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMeanMomentsStoriesCoursesFictionAudienceFireWonderfulMagicStrangePagesObviousCreatorMake SenseBest ThingsThat MomentSurprisingWriting FictionSaying And Doing Author:Neil Gaiman
“Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.” WorldWritingFirstsHeartBeautifulEvilReadingLinesTreeStrangeBabyPagesDevilPopsGorgeousSpillingBombshellsBest Poem Author:Zachary Schomburg
“It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.” IfsGivingWritingMayI CanStoriesDiesSoundNovelStrangePagesGive MeBad DayProtagonists Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.” SaidReasonReligionSidesLinesStrangeGeniusPagesRevelationsPrematureOne LineQuintessence Author:Horace Walpole
“The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.” FirstsForeverWrittenStrangePagesArticlesStrange ThingsWikipedia Author:Bo Burnham
“My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.” IfsWantFeelsWritingI CanMightEyeProcessDifficultStrangeSixPagesBoringStuckLeafsMidnightNotebookTransfersBest Times Author:Rita Dove
“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.” PeopleUseJobsFilmSportsTearsStrangePagesCamerasFortunePhotographMagazinesDevelopingFakeDepartmentAdsSheetsLabsDeliveringEditorialsSports Illustrated Author:Richard Prince
“I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.” PeopleFirstsEndsStoriesWantedLastsMotherHateReadingNovelStrangeHabitPagesI HateReading Habits Author:Alice Hoffman
“As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.” PeopleKnowsWritingChildrenAnimalKnow HowStrangeGrewGrew UpPagesAdultsBottomDrawingChickensFarmsHandwritingScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.” IfsYearsLooksSaidBookDifferentSelfFeelingsLeftSoundStrangeFlowerPagesSmellFamiliarFeel GoodOddFinding YourselfYounger SelfInkdeath Book:Inkspell Source: Inkspell
“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.” FeelsLongGoneStrangePages Book:Four Novels by James Joyce Source: Four Novels by James Joyce
“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.” IfsLifeFeelsLooksLostMillionsStrangeLike YouPagesScaredNot SurePrinted Author:Sarah Dessen
“After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend to its strange and beautiful texture, which of course, it was impossible to express in words. I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.” WorldLongIdeasSelfHomeBeautifulCoursesFoundSpeakFeltMy OwnInterestingSilenceTalkingAliveImpossibleStrangeConversationPagesConstantDimensionsDistractionYearningInteriorsCompelledInner SelfTexturePerplexityExpressing Ideas Author:Karen Armstrong
“The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.” PeopleWorldBelieveDoePurposeDiesLiteratureNovelStrangeProductsPagesRoseEnthusiasmCopiesMelancholyStakesMartyrPalacesAnticipatePuppetsMouldDebrisNihilist Book:De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings Source: De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
“He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust — dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight.” BookCharacterFormStrangeSweetPagesDelightHeavyDrawingDustTitlesCoveredBizarrePerfumeGothicLoadedManuscriptsOdor Author:Gustave Flaubert