“This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space.” IfsNeedsFeelsWritingFirstsRealEnoughFactsRealityAbleOrderImaginationSpaceFictionNovelHappenedEffectsPerspectiveNeededDistanceManipulateMy ImaginationPersonal ExperiencesClosenessPersuasiveLiving Reality Book:A Writer's Reality Source: A Writer's Reality
“Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an abstract, mathematical space. A less obvious innovation due to perspective is that here, for the first time, people are actually drawing pictures of infinities.” PeopleFirstsSpaceTeachingPerspectiveFirst TimeInnovationObviousMathDuesDrawingMathematicalAbstractInfinityBreakthroughDrawing Pictures Book:Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality Source: Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
“I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.” FirstsDoeStillsBigsFriendshipLosesSourcePerspectiveComfortMy FriendsBelieverIsolatedFirst LadySource Of StrengthStrength And Comfort Author:Nancy Reagan