“When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back and I read Pablo Neruda's poetry. I don't actually speak Spanish, so I read it translation. But I always go back to Neruda. I don't know why, but it calms me, calms my brain.” KnowsWritingMatterSpeakBrainSubjectsCalmBlockPlotTranslationsSubject Matter Author:Tea Obreht
“Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.” ThinkingScienceLanguageUnderstandingSubjectsBuddhismDependsIncreaseBlock Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“Chemistry begins in the stars. The stars are the source of the chemical elements, which are the building blocks of matter and the core of our subject.” MatterStarsSubjectsBuildingSourceElementsCoreBlockChemistryChemicalsBuilding Blocks Author:Peter Atkins
“Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.” LongDemocracySubjectsHighestBlockAuctionsPlutocracy Author:Bill Moyers
“The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.” ReasonMemoriesSubjectsMaterialsResearchBlockReason WhyVisibleCopiesConcreteSculptorsSculpting Author:Jacques Barzun
“In our country they do not permit any information to be X-rayed through and through, nor any discussion to encompass all the facets of a subject. All this is invariably suppressed at the very beginning, so no ray of light should fall on the naked body of truth. And then all this is piled up in one formless heap covering many years, where it languishes for whole decades, until all interest and all means of sorting out the rusty blocks from all this trash are lost.” ShouldYearsMeanCountryWholeBodyLightFallLostInterestSubjectsInformationDecadesNakedBlockOur CountryDiscussionPermitRaysTrashCoveringFacetsSortingRays Of LightLanguishSorting Out Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn