Creativity is like any other human talent – it takes an enormous amount of effort to develop.
– Jonah Lehrer
Tag: human
Quotable 464
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
– James A. Michener
Quotable 432
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years.
– August Strindberg
Quotable 411
I think of fiction as a kind of inquiry into what it is to be a human and what it is to be a human now.
– Deborah Eisenberg
Quotable 402
Writing, along with fire-making and the invention of the wheel, is widely held to be a milestone of human progress. This view will seem naïve to anybody who has read much human writing. … The true wellspring of civilization isn’t writing; it is editing.
– Nathan Heller
Quotable 401
I think that being a novelist means you defend human values by writing novels.
– Alaa Al Aswany
haiku 494
unwelcome human –
raccoon herds her kits
off the porch
haiku 444
petting the neighbor dog
who is missing her human –
another bacon treat
Quotable 298
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational. Whenever you create a character you must allow for the existence of irrationality.
– Rita Mae Brown
Quotable 293
Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art – the art of words.
– Ursula K. LeGuin