“Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences.” ShouldHumansChildrenStillsBookWishHuman BeingsSunWrittenAirMastersBabyTasteReflectionFruitIgnorantObservationPlasticToysBluntDullness Author:Margaret Fuller
“I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.” ThinkingBookDoneCharacterOpinionWrittenReaderTasteResponseDetailsScalesPlotCompleting Author:Joe Abercrombie
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.” LoveWritingHeartMomentsWrittenTasteWriting AdviceWriters And WritingRetrospectWriting By WritersCreativity And WritingInspiration To WriteWriting ShortShort WritingWhy We Write Author:Anais Nin
“It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds us, sets our stance. But what we remember is past, it no longer exists, and yet we hold on to it, live by it, surrender so much control to it. What do we become when we put down the scripts written by history and memory, when each person before us can be seen free of the cultural or personal narrative we've inherited or devised? When we, ourselves, can taste that freedom.” PersonsDoneSeemsPastRememberMemoriesViewsWrittenTasteShapesScriptsSurrenderNarrativeLive ByMoldStanceHistory And Memory Author:Rebecca Walker
“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.” BelieveOpinionWrittenFoolHabitPleaseTasteIndependentSuitsAdmirableIndependent Thought Author:Voltaire