“I don't really know what an adverb is. A dangling participle? That sounds really rude. I don't know what character is, really. Plot seems vaguely juvenile to me. It's all about language, it's all about how you apply it to the page.” KnowsCharacterSeemsLanguageSoundPagesPlotRudeJuvenileAdverbs Author:Colum McCann
“I'm usually more concerned with how things sound than how they look on the page.” LooksSoundPagesConcerned Author:Tom Waits
“Perhaps the old literacy of words is dying and a new literacy of images is being born. Perhaps the printed page will disappear and even our records be kept in images and sounds.” SoundBornRecordsDyingPagesDisappearLiteracyPrinted Author:Nancy Newhall
“The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.” EyeSoundMillionsGroupsPagesHundredEarsTongueFixedFascinatedRecallsBoresVersesPrintedFadingDeathlessBards Book:Philosophy Source: Philosophy
“Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to change. You'll leave the page untouched.” WayWantBookSoundPerfectPagesPencilsVegasLas VegasLoathingFear And Loathing Author:William McKeen
“Writers feel like a middleman, standing with pen in hand over the page. A force greater than me stands above telling me what to write. That may sound romantic, but that's how it feels.” FeelsWritingMayHandsForceSoundGreaterPagesStandingPensMiddlemen Author:Neil Simon
“When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're saying it out loud. Which is different from when you're writing it on the page. That toolbox becomes how does this look visually on the page, how does this read among pages, how is this in relation to poems that are before it or after it. I don't think one is better or more successful than the other. You've just gotta think about "what are the tools I'm using, and how are they most effective in this form?"” ThinkingWritingLooksDoeDifferentBodyFormSoundVoiceSuccessfulPagesToolsRelationYour BodyLoudSpoken WordToolbox Author:Phil Kay
“The way something looks or sounds is also what it means. Words as visual and aural phenomena, which mainly poets, not critics and prose writers, tend to be obsessed with. I think maybe I'm more of a curator than I am a writer in the strict sense because I am interested in how everything on the page, in a space, works together.” ThinkingWayLooksMeanTogetherSoundSpacePoetPagesCriticsObsessedVisualsProseWorking TogetherStrictCuratorMean Words Author:Masha Tupitsyn
“I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.” ThinkingWritingBookFacesUsedFoundSoundVoicePagesUncomfortableAnnoyingAppearingFettersFound Love Author:Nora Waln
“It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.” IfsGivingWritingMayI CanStoriesDiesSoundNovelStrangePagesGive MeBad DayProtagonists Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too, on the meaning and significance of the color white. I dreamed of white birds and white bears. I thought about the white pages of my mother's journals. I became enthralled with John Cage and his work, 4'33”, his masterpiece of ambient sound. Rauschenberg, too. And then at some point I let go. What sticks to the soul is what gets placed on the page. Maybe that's the unknown part, the mystery, the power of the empty page.” ArtIdeasSoulMotherArtistSoundWhiteSilenceStudyMysteryColorBearsLetting GoPagesBirdEmptySticksCriticsLibraryPhilosopherObsessedSignificanceJournalCagesMasterpieceAmbientColor WhiteStudying ArtWhite Birds Author:Terry Tempest Williams
“This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.” PeopleWorldMayLittlesDifferentEasyBitsSoundLittle BitPagesAccountsDialogueDifferent PeoplesBlogsIdealisticFacebook Page Author:Paulo Coelho
“Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable.” PeopleIfsWellsBookIdeasRealSeemsReadingSoundTalkingExampleBearsPagesHonestlyReal LifeTricksDialogueGood IdeasResemblancePeople TalkingReading Aloud Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The difference between me in my work and the me who is here in front of you is that on the page I create a consistency, a voice that must sound really reliable; whereas in person I am free - obviously! - to sound every which way.” WayPersonsSoundVoiceDifferencesFrontsPagesConsistency Author:Vivian Gornick