#writ

In the years when I discoverd the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#change

My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#education

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change. ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#writing #change

It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost. ↗

— Jeremy Page

#writing #change

The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. ↗

— Kyle Muntz

#writing #life

When explicit thinking patterns were in charge, light waves of particular lengths were thought to stimulate Jenny’s optical nerve, changing hue of her eye color. ↗

— Judy Byington

#pseudoscience #change

The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#writing #communication

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#prophetic #wisdom #writing #age

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#exageration #language #on-writing #power-of-words #superlatives

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#heard #read #speak #understood #write