“When metaphors die — that is, pass from their literary homes in poems and books into the public domain (the process called lexicalization) — they become idioms: idioms being what we know so well that we see straight through it, as Shakespeare’s ‘Not a mouse stirring.’ Indeed, ...
Inspirational quotes aregreatly beneficial to everyone, especially writers, regardless of where they are in the writing process. Quotes can help generate ideas within brainstorming, which can influence the ideas within the piece. They can send you in new directions by presenting the ideas of others...
“Metaphor shakes things up, giving us everything from Shakespeare to scientific discovery in the process. The mind is a plastic snow dome, the most beautiful, most interesting, and most itself, when, as Elvis put it, it’s all shook up. And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and ...
Why do writers write? What advice can they offer us on the art of writing? The quotes of writers from ancient times up to the present can teach us a lot about writing.
2. On Writing a Memoir Karl Lagerfeld in 1964. “No memoirs. I have nothing to say, and what I could say, I cannot say.”— January 2013 (WWD CEO Summit Leadership). See the complete interviewhere. 1. On His Design Process
She was the face department, because nobody thought that faces were all that important -- they were just flesh-toned busts on top of the avatars. She was just in the process of proving them all desperately wrong. But at this phase, the all-male society of bitheads that made up the ...
He is engaged in the long process of putting his whole life on paper. He is on a journey and he is reporting in: ‘This is where I think I am and this is what this place looks like today.’” Harlan Ellison author I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream book journeys ᐧwriting ᐧ...
“You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. That’s just how it is. It’s like learning an instrument. You’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That’s just part of the learning process.”(Click...
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too. — Ernest Hemingway 224 I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one. — H. Jackson Br...
To me the most powerful moment in the whole process is when everything comes together and there is that perfect, beautiful, still moment. And for that instant, my life makes sense. — Gregory Crewdson 67 Most teams aren't teams at all but merely collections of individual relationships with...