Quotes About Writing

writing the greater part of his History and trying to make sense of it all.

The basic technology of writing had been known for at least two thousand years already—nothing new about that.

A syllabary is a system in which each syllable of the language is represented by its own sign.

Instead, the Greeks looked elsewhere. The writing system that eventually caught their attention had been developed

The Phoenician script was in effect a syllabary.

by leaving out the vowels, it had the great advantage of reducing the number of signs to just over twenty.

This is why, when the Greeks adapted this system for their own use, they called it the 'alphabet'.

El ejemplo de la lectura y la escritura es revelador de que allí hay un proceso de liberación: el mecanismo híbrido permite actos creativos que no están inscritos en una inexorable cadena de causas y efectos. La literatura, como otras expresiones artísticas, es una actividad liberadora.

Joseph Brodsky wrote: "If there is any substitute for love, it's memory. To memorize, then, is to restore intimacy." The restoration of intimacy is more than an act of love; it is an attempt, by writing down a lost world before it dissolves, to bring memory closer to truth. It

Brahmi seems to have been adapted from a Semitic writing system .. Brahmi is the ancestor of most of the writing systems used in India.

As with drawing, using the nondominant hand to write after a visualisation can help to anchor in the creative part of the brain any changes decided. Research has shown that script changes are more effective when the

There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.

One of the reasons I live abroad is because, as a writer, I can see England better when removed from it.

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.

Why do we write? "To make suffering endurable To make evil intelligible To make justice desirable and . . . to make love possible

Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, it's typing.

About the Author Winner of a Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, a Peabody Award, an Emmy, and two Polk awards, ROGER ROSENBLATT is University Professor of Writing at Long Island University Southampton College. He writes essays for Time magazine and for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.

What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!

Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

The Text is without a source -- the "author" a mere "guest" at the reading of the Text.

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.

Inspiration doesn't make writings, writings make inspiration.

He made me write my research notes on three-by-five cards. On each card was a scene, a character note, or a detail from my research.