“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.” PeopleKnowsWritingHomeFieldsFootballBedMy FamilyLettersPrisonDid You KnowFootball FieldBunk Author:Michael Vick
“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.” WritingChildrenHomeBodyLanguageUnitedPowerfulInfluenceAwarenessFieldsMarkVery GoodSentencesRhythmDimensionsShockMost PowerfulSongwritingTerritoryTribesAncestryGood WritersCadenceUnited Family Author:Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
“If you are afraid to write or edit or assemble or disassemble, you are merely a spectator. And you are trapped, trapped by the instructions of those you've chosen to follow. Twenty people in the field and eighty thousand in the stands. The spectators are the ones who paid to watch, but it's the player on the field who are truly alive.” PeopleIfsWritingMotivationalWatchesAlivePlayerFieldsThousandPaidTwentiesChosenInstructionTrappedSpectatorsEightyEdits Author:Seth Godin
“I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.” WritingLiteratureFieldsResearchAccusedAnthropology Author:Clifford Geertz