Quotes About Perception

It is consciousness that brings both suffering and enjoyment to the world.

A hole is defined by its edges, and these are not part of the hole. So a hole can exist only if there is something that is not a hole.

A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.

A reader finds a new reality on the page, interacts with an imaginary world, and is enriched by doing so.

A writer's fiefdom is the entire world--everything seen, heard, felt & thought--all augmented by imagination.

As a writer, you write about the world as you see it, and about yourself in disguise.

Every reader is a casting director.

Downer: When the searing prose of the night before reads so bleakly pedestrian in the cold light of morning

Dealing with truth is tough. In a sense, we're all unreliable narrators.

The disappointment you feel when viewing the movie version of a character you've imagined while reading the novel.

When you really get down to it, good writing (or good art of any kind) taps deeply into feelings more than anything else.

The world is on fire, young man. As writers, it is only proper that we do what we can to warn people. But in telling the truth to the world, don't lie to yourself. Write whatever you want. Tell the truth. Just don't imagine that you are changing anything. Like I said, people just want to have a good time. -Snagglepuss

We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it's real, it becomes more meaningful to us than reality.

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

I, on the other hand, hoped Ava would never grow up. In my eyes, the fact that she didn't yet know what words meant, and had no concept of herself as something distinct from anything else, made her the greatest show on earth.

What if you tell a joke in the forest, and nobody laughs, was it a joke? —Steven Wright To create your comedic MAPP, you start with the purpose.

A key prerequisite to thinking and writing funny is understanding funny. And

Angst is the intellectual observation that fairy tales aren't true—that there is an unhappy end to every happy beginning. Angst

As Mark Twain observed, "Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn't a fashion – it's an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be 'passive' – inviting our gaze.

There's a famous quote which goes something like, 'You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be'. Maybe there's some truth to that. We like to think that society shapes us, but I don't think that that's the way it happens. Select, 1991

In the 21st century men's tits have not just rivalled but replaced women's as the touchstone of 'sexy' in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.

every time men try to grasp something consolingly, sturdily, essentially masculine, it all too easily transforms into its opposite.

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.