“We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.” WorldTryingLongWhiteViewsGenerationsPagesSymbolsSouthernFlagsConfederateOverdueConfederate Flag Author:William R. Ferris
“I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.” WorldBelieveTwoCreatingPagesHundredDon't BelieveSymbols Author:Shane Jones
“For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.” KnowsFirstsTwoIdeasFeelingsTurnsEmotionSeeingPagesUniqueEmptyBreathsRemainsObviousScreensDrawingCoffeeNineSymbolsCupsSensualStaringThirtyInvitesBlankDeep BreathCoffee CupBlank PagesBlankness Author:Adam Gopnik
“Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.” HumansBookIdeasReligiousRacePagesArchitectureSymbolsHuman RaceGreat IdeaHuman Thought Book:The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2 Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2
“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.” MindMeanStoriesFeelingsAbleFormProcessWonderReaderPagesSymbolsCommonplaceThoughts And FeelingsTelepathy Book:Atonement Source: Atonement
“In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was no gap during which the symbols were unraveled.” WorldWritingMindMeanStoriesFeelingsAbleFormReadingWishProcessUnderstandingWonderReaderLatePagesDown AndLaysFingersObviousSentencesSymbolsToo LateGapsCommonplaceWish YouThoughts And FeelingsTelepathy Author:Ian Mcewan
“Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.” FeelsHeartBookSelfHandsRealityFormSpiritReadingBrainPagesIntellectualAspectSightSmellReleaseSymbolsThoughtfulHieroglyphics Book:Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell Source: Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell
“An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.” MindDoeBookStoriesHappensReaderPagesSymbolsPrintedGood StoryUnread Books Author:Brandon Mull
“Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment.” IfsWritingMindWholeFeelingsAbleFormSpiritBlackWhiteVisionEnvironmentAliveReaderPagesCalmStoresTinySymbolsSmokeCombinationTenseAdaptedPhysicalityGeniesNew Environment Author:Mary Gaitskill