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“Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Three Numbers Reader Structure Sentences Three Words Sentence Structure

Author:Janet Fitch

“Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.”

Should Passion Color Equal Structure Sentences Painter Sentence Structure

Author:Andrew McAleer

“One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.”

Reason Tvs Fit Ideals Structure Narrative Compare

Book:The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

Source: The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics

“I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.”

Matter Structure

Book:The seven mysteries of life: an exploration in science & philosophy

Source: The seven mysteries of life: an exploration in science & philosophy

“The way to improve productivity is not to bring in experts to talk about inputs - seed, equipment and materials, pesticides or water supply. The way to start is to provide an assured market, a fair price, and a system through which rural producers can market their produce which is reasonably efficient and can transfer to them the maximum share of the consumers' money. If such a structure is erected, the producers will then seek the inputs and materials they need to increase their production and productivity.”

“The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure”

People Structure

Author:William Anthony Donohue

“What was evident was that Mozart was simply transcribing music completely finished in his head. And finished as most music is never finished. Displace one note and there would be diminishment. Displace one phrase and structure would fall. I was staring through the cage of those meticulous ink strokes at Absolute Beauty.”

Would Be Fall Music Is Absolutes Structure Notes Finished Staring Phrases Strokes Evident Cages Ink Meticulous Transcribing

Author:Peter Shaffer

“Freedom without structure is its own slavery.”

Slavery Structure

Book:The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

Source: The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

“If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.”

“To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.”

Source: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.”

“Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure.”

Children Lord Adults Structure Absence Wander Islands Savages Organize Tribes Hunts Rivals Barbarians Supervision Stranded

Author:Kathleen Parker

“It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.”

Source: Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League

“I think we're in a global crisis of unprecedented scale, with global warming and climate change, and we don't have the solution using any of the separated structures that are attempting to solve these issues, whether it be the United Nations, or the global corporations.”

Thinking Nations United Issues Solutions Crisis Structure Climate Climate Change Solve Scales Corporations Global Warming United Nations Attempting Unprecedented

Author:Barbara Marx Hubbard

“The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.”

Thinking Needs Humans Doe Whole Moments Realizing Consciousness Fronts Objects Fit Accounts Structure Stereotype Human Consciousness Great Moments

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.”

Way Whole Depends Bird Built Stones Structure Species Complicated Cells Developing Related Organisms Pyramids Mammals

Author:W. S. Merwin

“When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!”

Ends States Whole Consciousness Philosophical Structure Scared Terrified Altered Realisation States Of Consciousness Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Susan Schneider

“Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.”

Want Social Sex Knowing Married Standards Raises Structure Who You Are Currents Autonomy Double Standard Knowing Who You Are Jackasses Social Structure

Author:Betty Dodson

“In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.”

People Government Law Position Structure Grades Classroom Fourth Fourth Grade

Author:Kevin Systrom

“Because I'm a novelist, I think in terms of structure. The way I keep going is through structure. It's what inspires me and pushes me through.”

Thinking Way Term Inspire Structure Novelists Keep Going

Author:Jess Walter

“I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.”

Art Stories Together Written Structure I Realized Collections

Author:Jess Walter

“Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.”

Art Reason Form Water Fiction Issues Style Painting Elements Strategy Structure Memoir Crafts Nonfiction Composition Formal Precise Critique Chronology

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“When I'm editing, I try to bring out some dramatic structure. I think it is about theater in some way; it is a little play.”

Thinking Way Trying Littles Play Theater Structure Dramatic Editing

Author:Sheila Heti

“All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.”

People Thinking Way Different Self Remember Childhood Adults Our Children Structure Narrative Different Peoples Biographers

Author:Rachel Holmes

“Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it.”

Writing Kind Novel Particular Color Structure Boards Frustration

Author:Rebecca Miller

“The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.”

Ideas Structure Iraq Corruption Regimes

Author:Elliott Colla

“Not that I play guitar anywhere near as well as she sings, but I think I have always had a tendency to play solos the same way, in emotional relation to the structure of the song. I choose simple lines, and only play what seems emotionally relevant, and often express that emotion in time, that is in play or resistance to the set time of the song.”

Thinking Way Wells Play Seems Song Lines Simple Emotion Emotional Relation Structure Guitar Resistance Tendencies Relevant Solo

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my brain. Food, words, memories all twist together, so it was the obvious way to structure my life. Each memory of food opened up an entire scene for me, it was the key that unlocked everything.”

People Way Together Memories Brain Keys Scene Structure Obvious Organized Restaurants Twists Palate Intertwined

Author:Kate Christensen

“Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience.”

Looks Political Interest Economy Media Shapes Structure Landscape Funding Political Economy Consolidation

Author:Astra Taylor

“I think what I wanted to do was meet someone who knew more than me about songwriting structure and progressions and middle eights and things that more traditional writers write and I don't usually employ.”

Thinking Writing Wanted Middle Structure Traditional Songwriting Progression

Author:Bat for Lashes

“I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.”

Firsts Persons Book Matter Names Pieces Subjects Structure Musical Instance Theme Etc Subject Matter

Author:Hilton Als

“They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.”

Ifs Stories Moving Structure Moving Forward Evolve Each Day

Author:T.C. Boyle

“Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive view. But I think for as many portals for critical consciousness in the poetry world and in the American spirit that exist, there's also an over-arching, dominant mirroring, in poetry, of the corporate structure, the capitalist enterprise.”

Thinking World America Spirit Culture Views Consciousness Reflection Structure Critical Corporate Enterprise Capitalist Dominant Portal Mirroring American Spirit

Author:Fady Joudah

“I like to work with multiple sections because they lend themselves to the structure of the poem: its intensifications and arcs and closures. I feel like working with smaller units feels more natural to the way I write poems.”

Way Feels Writing Natural Structure Multiple Units Sections Arcs Closure

Author:Anna Journey

“Normally you'll have a structure to a song. You'll have an intro to a verse to a pre-chorus to a chorus, kinda repeat that, maybe there's a bridge, then you'll go out on a chorus - that's the quintessential song structure - sometimes you might do a fake-out, re-do a pre-chorus but the chorus doesn't come until later, but for the most part you follow these tried and true structures.”

Sometimes Might Song Structure Bridges Fake Repeats Verses Chorus Quintessential

Author:Frank Iero

“I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.”

Thinking Should Film Language Sides Should Have Structure Individualistic

Author:Brian Lindstrom

“Much of the early work focused on dopamine and we were really looking for rewarding sorts of effects and sure enough, we only found that. But you can destroy the main dopamine-producing structures of the brain and you can still get an animal to self-administer drugs like cocaine.”

Stills Self Enough Found Animal Brain Effects Drug Structure Focused Cocaine Dopamine Early Work

Author:Carl Hart

“Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes it's too distracting. If I'm listening to something I really love - I have to stop and give everything over to it. I'm listening to its structures, its melodic lines, the bass. It takes up too much of my head - in a good way.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing I Can Sometimes Choices Lines Too Much Listening Structure Coffee Listening To Music Bass Good Way

Author:Paul Lisicky

“I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.”

Writing Song Principles Style Structure Core Stuck Genre Classic Songwriting

Author:Wendy Starland

“I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically associate information with other information, based on the information they are looking at (for example skin color, bone structure), but I think focusing on race in any manner that isn't neutral or self-aware probably increases racism.”

Thinking Knows Self Race Brain Information Example Color Degrees Racism Skins Increase Structure Bones Racist Associates Skin Color

Author:Tao Lin

“If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.”

Ifs Happens Strong Results Happened Events Drama Music Is Structure Come Up Things Happen Make Sense Strings

Author:Missy Mazzoli

“I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.”

Character Structure Researchers Channeling

Author:Jami Attenberg

“I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Stills Book Use Bigs Wanted Materials Bigger Structure Architecture

Author:Jami Attenberg

“There is a deep desire to change the power structure.”

Desire Structure Deep Desire Desire To Change

Author:Robert Reich

“When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.”

Thinking Form Language My Own Decision Watches Students Particular Development Structure

Author:Leni Zumas

“Though it's marvelously entertaining, and I had fantastic fun writing the book, it's not terribly easily, the material, and it's not all that familiar...although we think it is familiar. The processes of the wonderful narratives are very intricate. It's about the charm - the spellbinding charm - of ingenuity, and it's not so easy to remember the plots or the structure or even the names.”

Thinking Writing Book Remember Names Fun Easy Process Wonderful Materials Structure Familiar Fantastic Narrative Charm Plot Entertaining Ingenuity Intricate

Author:Marina Warner

“One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which many repetitions and motifs recur and mirror one another. This is very much reflected within the stories: they have borders within borders, repeated motifs which change. They have their feet in oral conventions, and for the mnemonics, the storyteller needs to have a structure in order to remember the stories.”

Needs Book Stories Remember Order Feet Mirrors Structure Metaphor Surface Flying Borders Conventions Repetition Storyteller Carpet Woven Motifs

Author:Marina Warner

“The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots.”

Knows Firsts Remember Brother Thirds Structure Where You Are Knots

Author:Marina Warner

“I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat.”

Kind Ideas Ends Stories Fields Structure Depth Surface Storytelling Cinema Carrie Flats Infinity Imaginative Carpet Terrific Reflecting Woven

Author:Marina Warner

“I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to keep the same structure and just plug in new content every week.”

Want Art Interesting Week Structure Plugs

Author:David Rees

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