“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.” ThinkingMenWritingBookCharacterStoriesActionHateTurnsNovelAlivePagesUnderstoodHundredSkinsI HateTwentiesAgreeThirtyShedSnakesI Am Alive Author:Kenneth Patchen
“Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.” WritingBookWholeLightRunningEarthHoursWrittenMankindCenturyPagesUnderstoodPressesSpreadNewspapersJournalismExtremity Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“Good poems ask us to have complex minds and hearts. Even simple-of-surface poems want that. Perhaps those are the ones that want it most of all, since that's where they do their work: in the unspoken complexities, understood off the page.” WantMindHeartAsksSimplePagesUnderstoodComplexesSurfaceComplexityHeart And MindUnspoken Author:Jane Hirshfield
“Director and producers have to take all the risks they can. We developed this film with the possibility to create departing from a blank page and to discover things as the process went along and as we understood the things that at first we couldn't understand in words.” FirstsFilmProcessRiskPossibilityDirectorsPagesUnderstoodProducersBlankBlank PagesDeparting Author:Alex Abreu
“If you had a system that could read all the pages and understand the context, instead of just throwing back 26 million pages to answer your query, it could actually answer the question. You could ask a real question and get an answer as if you were talking to a person who read all those millions and billions of pages, understood them, and synthesized all that information.” IfsPersonsRealAsksAnswersTalkingMillionsInformationPagesUnderstoodBillionsThrowingReal QuestionsQueries Author:Stuart J. Russell
“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts” PersonsStoriesWould BeFallCrimeElementsPagesUnderstoodRiversEmptyBreathsFalling In LoveSettingSettingsDesertBridgesFlatsResolutionVentureSonnetClimax Book:Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road Source: Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.” PeopleNeedsMindMomentsStoriesSeemsMy OwnLossNovelTakenPagesUnderstoodLonelyStrangerAbsenceGhostConfusedThat MomentRefugeMy Own LifeLonely People Book:The Shadow Of The Wind Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“There is nothing else in magic but the wild thought of the bird as it casts itself into the void. There is no creature upon the earth with such potential for magic. Even the least of them may fly straight out of this world and come by chance to the Other Lands. Where does the wind come from that blows upon your face, that fans the pages of your book? Where the harum-scarum magic of small wild creatures meets the magic of Man, where the language of the wind and the rain and the trees can be understood, there we will find the Raven King.” MenWorldMayDoeBookEarthFacesLanguageChanceMagicTreeFansLandThis WorldWindKingsCreaturesPagesBirdUnderstoodRainCastsBlowYour FaceVoidRavensWild Creatures Author:Susanna Clarke
“St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.” BookPagesUnderstoodSt Thomas Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton