#dictation

If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#because #carry #dictation #down #i

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#did #god #his #i #merely

How anybody can compose a story by word of mouth face to face with a bored-looking secretary with a notebook is more than I can imagine. Yet many authors think nothing of saying, 'Ready, Miss Spelvin? Take dictation. Quote no comma Sir Jasper Murgatroyd comma close quotes comma said no better make it hissed Evangeline comma quote I would not marry you if you were the last person on earth period close quotes Quote well comma I'm not so the point does not arise comma close quotes replied Sir Jasper twirling his moustache cynically period And so the long day wore on period End of chapter.' If I had to do that sort of thing I should be feeling all the time that the girl was saying to herself as she took it down, 'Well comma this beats me period How comma with homes for the feebleminded touting for custom on every side comma has a man like this succeeded in remaining at large mark of interrogation. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#writing #imagination

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#control #dictation #free #i #i can

What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comes #dialogue #dictation #down #easiest

Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed. ↗

— James Buchan

#assertive #commodities #crude #crude oil #dictation

An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

#another #busily #day #dictation #geography

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#commandments #dictation #get #getting #good

I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation. ↗

— Brian Bosworth

#fed #fed up #i #moving #point