“I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.” ThinkingCharacterMovingSpaceStagePagesLettersSyllables Author:Susan Howe
“You must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable-nay, letter by letter... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough) and remain an utterly "illiterate," undeducated person; but if you read ten pages of a good book, letter by letter, - that is to say, with real accuracy- you are for evermore in some measure an educated person.” IfsPersonsLongBookRealEnoughMightHabitTenPagesLettersBritishEducatedMuseumsGood BookAccuracyIlliterateSyllablesEvermoreEducated PersonBritish Museum Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“A lot of things appearing under my byline were written in one draft. But when I started to write poetry, I started getting fussy about every syllable. I wouldn't allow the work to be seen unless it felt perfect. Not clunky at all, no clunky syllables. So, really, for the printed page, it had to have a feeling of rhythmic and syntactic verisimilitude or something.” WritingFeelingsFeltPerfectWrittenPagesPrintedAppearingSyllablesFussy Author:Richard Meltzer
“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.” LoveWritingLeftLove YouPagesPregnancySyllables Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. A century of family saga and a ride up an escalator can take the same number of pages. Fiction sets any conversion rate, then changes it in a syllable. The narrator’s mother carries her child up the stairs and the reader follows, for days. But World War I passes in a paragraph. I needed 125 pages to get from Labor Day to Christmas vacation. In six more words, here’s spring.” WorldChildrenWarMotherNumbersFictionCenturyReaderNeededSixPagesSpringLaborRateDefeatConversionTricksNovelistsWar Of The WorldsCarrieVacationWorld War IStairsParagraphSyllablesTime PassesSagaNarratorsLabor DayRefreshmentsEscalators Book:Generosity: An Enhancement Source: Generosity: An Enhancement