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“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”

Source: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.”

Ifs Stories Certain Sound Simple Principles Written Sells Things To Do Basic Principles Salesmanship

Author:Erle Stanley Gardner

“All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago.”

Three Sound Written Modern Century Yesterday Old Fashioned Old Music

Author:Peter Warlock

“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.”

People Knows Doe Two Ideas Country Sometimes Song Three Sound Audience Know How Written Rocks Strange Pops Contemporary Appeals Theme Fascinated Rock Music

Author:Ryan Adams

“The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.”

May Sound Pleasure Written Trouble Poet Blessed Manage Poetry Is Blessed Are Those

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.”

Writing Whole House Sound Voice Behinds Nice Written Doors Wall Whole Life Lifts Apartment Detached Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors Villa

Book:Writing Home

Source: Writing Home

“I don't remember the first poem that I wrote because I've been creating poems since I was around 2 or 3. I don't have any memory of that but my mom has written evidence of it. I've always liked playing with words so when I was younger it had a lot more to do with rhyme and sounds.”

Firsts Remember Sound Memories Written Mom Creating Evidence My Mom Rhyme

Author:Sarah Kay

“My sound is constantly progressing and maturing. It's hard with all the songs that I have written over the years to compile them all into one album. It's almost impossible to categorize them into one genre.”

Years Hard Song Sound Progress Impossible Written Albums Genre Mature

Author:Asher Monroe

“If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if you read with a mind that has cut off all thinking, then Zen books, sutras and Bibles are all the truth. So is the barking of a dog or the crowing of a rooster. All things are teaching you at every moment, and these sounds are even better teaching than Zen books.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Said Book Moments Sound Cutting Written Teaching Dog All Things Roosters

Author:Seungsahn

“The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).”

Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing

“I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.”

Mind Song Three Sound Written Week Minutes Havens Workers Satisfied Take Me

Author:Nick Lowe

“The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.”

“With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.”

Children Book Soul Literature Sound Written Theory Criticism Assuming Critics Exception Children's Books Literary Criticism Children's Literature Lenient

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.”

Long I Can Wanted Remember Song Sound Written Experiencing Something

Author:Emily Haines