“Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.” WritingSecretCuttingProgressRocksMountainPicksFlowHighwaysChipping AwaySlow Progress Author:Piers Anthony
“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.” MenSaidPhilosophyHappensBeliefSecretPrinciplesFailingSeaFlowSightEnglandRelationHarmonyEastSubtleTidesImpressedRudeCoastResemblanceEast CoastEbb And FlowDwellersKent Author:James G. Frazer
“No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.” ArtDreamSportsEnjoySecretCarBuildingParticularSceneFlowCustomsUniquenessMotor Author:James Hetfield
“Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.” HumansSecretFlowDepthDetermineSurfaceBroadsTidesHuman HistorySecret Society Author:A. E. Waite
“You must let life flow naturally, for life’s secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.” SecretFlowPushing Author:Leon Brown
“For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.” WayNeedsFormLyingLiteratureSecretNovelGoneOur LivesAwarenessFlowImportanceDetermineSensitiveSatireSympathyTidesCleansingNew PlacesEbb And FlowRecoilSecret Places Book:Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'
“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.” WorldWayWantFirstsLooksIdeasFacesLanguageLosesSecretHigherDisciplineExerciseLetting GoFlowImpulseAspirationMessengersLosing YourselfCarrier Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo