“ quotes ” writing. all books are either dreams or swords. “ ” amy lowell
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
“ QUOTES ”Writing
![Page 2: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
All books are either dreams or swords.“ ”
Amy Lowell
![Page 3: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
“”
Walter Bageholt
![Page 4: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
A good writer writes with a camera, not a pen.
“”
Robert Newton Peck
![Page 5: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.“ ”
Ernest Hemingway
![Page 6: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
“”
Francis Bacon
![Page 7: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
“
”Francis Bacon
![Page 8: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
“
”Francis Bacon
![Page 9: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
“
” Samuel Johnson
![Page 10: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
A plot is two dogs and a bone.“ ”
Robert Newton Peck
![Page 11: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.
“”
W. H. Auden
![Page 12: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
“The king died and the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot.
“
”E.M. Forster
![Page 13: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
“”
Orson Scott Card
![Page 14: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Writing is a struggle against silence.“
”
Carlos Fuents
![Page 15: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head.
“”
From the movie Finding Forrester
![Page 16: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.
“
”Russell Lynes
![Page 17: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Tragedy is not the conflict between good and evil; it is the conflict between good and good.
“
”Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel
![Page 18: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. “ ”
Chinese Proverb
![Page 19: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
“
” Paul Englr
![Page 20: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second street and Fifth Avenue .
“
”Joseph Campbell
![Page 21: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Strictly considered, modern advertising seeks to promote not so much self-indulgence as self-doubt. It seeks to create needs, not to fulfill them; to generate new anxieties instead of allaying old ones.
“
” Christopher Lasch
![Page 22: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Write from abundance. “ ”
Donald Murray
![Page 23: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said..., of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.
“
”Susan Sontag
![Page 24: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
In an art form like film-making, we know that editing and revising cannot be dismissed as superfluous, for they are an integral part of the whole process. In fact, what we eventually see on the screen is not what was filmed, but what was edited.
“
”William Irmscher
![Page 25: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.
“
”Ray Bradbury
![Page 26: “ QUOTES ” Writing. All books are either dreams or swords. “ ” Amy Lowell](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081603/56649eff5503460f94c15748/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.
“”
Winston Churchill