“How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.” PeopleIfsWritingTryingRealDoneWould BeEarthSoundNovelLaughingReal LifeLockedLocked Up Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.” WritingBookWholeLightRunningEarthHoursWrittenMankindCenturyPagesUnderstoodPressesSpreadNewspapersJournalismExtremity Author:Alphonse de Lamartine
“Re: Robert Montgomery's Poems His writing bears the same relation to poetry which a Turkey carpet bears to a picture. There are colours in the Turkey carpet out of which a picture might be made. There are words in Mr. Montgomery's writing which, when disposed in certain orders and combinations,have made, and will make again, good poetry. But, as they now stand, they seem to be put together on principle in such a manner as to give no image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.” GivingWritingMadeSeemsMightEarthTogetherCertainOrderHeavenWaterPrinciplesBearsRelationCombinationColourTurkeysCarpetMontgomeryGood Poetry Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.” IfsThinkingWritingHeartEnoughEarthWhitePoorSeaPaperInk Author:John Lyly
“I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.” WritingEarthUniverseSimplePagesDareTalesNot SureComplexityAttributesNotoriousSimple Words Book:Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness Source: Brodie's Report: Including the Prose Fiction from In Praise of Darkness
“One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious writing contains certain scientific errors. For example, Muhammad taught in the Qur'an that the sun descends down into a muddy spring. The Hindu Vedas state that the Earth is flat and triangular, that earthquakes are caused by elephants shaking themselves under it. You'll never read absurd statements like those in the Bible.” WritingStatesEarthCertainReligiousSunExampleTaughtSpringBibleErrorsAncientStatementsAbsurdExceptionFlatsElephantsShakingMuhammadEarthquakesAccuracyMuddyVedas Author:Charlie Campbell
“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.” IfsWorldWayWritingTryingArtFactsStoriesEarthFormArtistOrderForceNaturalBehindsVisionNovelCreationObjectsPlanetsChaosDrivenImpulseAppropriateScreenplaysPlanet Earth Author:Robert Olen Butler
“There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.” ThinkingWantWritingMeanEarthUsedKnowingFunctionWho You AreSupposed To BeFulfillingWriters And WritingKnowing Who You Are Author:Natalie