#pattern

Yes, basically, like you said, I'll work out a chord pattern and work out the lyrics over that. ↗

— Roger McGuinn

#chord #i #like #lyrics #out

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#deal #events #going #great #great deal

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#elegant #foundation #literature #logical #once

If breaking a habit has been hard for you to do, hard for you even to face, then a helping hand is in order. ↗

— Kenneth Schwarz

#breaking-a-habit #breaking-bad-habits #change-a-bad-habit #change-bad-habits #habit

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#behaviour #belief-systems #child-development #conditioning #education-system

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#life #patterns #theme #life

The difference between real life and a story is that life has significance, while a story must have meaning. The former is not always apparent, while the latter always has to be, before the end. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fiction #fictional #life #meaning #pattern

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#perceptions #storytelling #perception

First you wonder if they're separate stories, but no, they're not, they're contingent stories and they form a pattern. And you begin with some of the island as the place to which the heroine of the book returns. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#book #contingent #first #form #heroine

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#i #i can #now #nowhere #pattern