Quote: James Michener on Writing and Tangling with Human Emotions
James Michener was an American novelist and short story writer. He wrote epic and detailed works of fiction which have been classified as fictional documentaries. Through his writing, he made foreign environments accessible to Americans.
In 1948, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Tales of the South Pacific, a short story collection that also inspired a Broadway classic.
On writing, Michener said:
Quote: Junot Diaz on Writing and Perseverance
Junot Diaz is an award-winning writer who was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. In 2008, he won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. He is currently a creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
On writing and perseverance, he says:
Quote: William Makepeace Thackeray on Writing and Familiar Things
William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist known for his satirical works. Vanity Fair, which was one of his most popular novels, was the first novel published under his name. He published Vanity Fair in serial monthly parts, a method used by Charles Dickens. Other notable works include With the Luck of Barry Lyndon and Pendennis. He also wrote travel books such as The Paris Sketch Book and From Cornhill to Grand Cairo.
On writing, he said:
Quote: Pam Allyn on Reading, Writing and Breathing
Pam Allyn is an author and American literacy expert. She is also a self-described “passionate advocate for innovation in education and in building start ups that grow up to change the world.”
She describes reading and writing as processes that are dependent on each other. In her words:
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Quote: Jorge Luis Borges on Writing as a Guided Dream
Jose Luis Borges was an Argentine poet, short-story writer, and essayist. His tales and poems have come to be regarded as classics of 20th Century world literature. In 1961, he gained international fame when he was awarded the Prix Formentor, the International Publishers Prize, which he shared with Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright.
His words offer valuable insight, a different perspective really, into the writing process. He saw writing as a guided dream. Specifically, on writing, he said:
Supertitles Are Not the Same as Subtitles
Last month, I attended a music concert featuring mostly classical and orchestra music. Before the concert commenced, I looked through the program I was handed at the door. It contained details you would normally expect to see in a program of events: names of the organizers, history of past performances, names of individuals performing each musical piece, orchestra members and who was playing what instrument, degree qualifications, and accomplishments, etc.
But I also stumbled on an unexpected item.
Supertitles by XYZ.
What in the world are Supertitles? I wondered. Well, I did some digging around and here’s what I discovered.
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