Category Detail for Writing (6 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Chinese Proverb General Writing The faintest ink is more powerful than the strongest memory.
2 Abraham Lincoln Literature Writing Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.
3 Elie Wiesel Literature Writing There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
4 Frank Lloyd Wright Literature Writing I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
5 Flannery O'Connor Literature Writing Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
6 M. Night Shyamalan Literature Writing Shyamalan wrote some dialogue for a birthday party - a turning point, though it never made it to the screen - where the sensitive kid and a chubby kid are just sitting there, friendless and ostracized. The sensitive kid tells the chubby kid, "My mom said God made some of us different, knowing that it'd be hard. But he picked the people who would be different really carefully." Then the sensitive kid leans forward to the chubby kid: "God thinks we’re strong."... "I was only 10," says Haley Joel Osment, "but I could tell it was amazing writing."...I ask why Manoj ever stopped calling himself Manoj. "You are pronouncing it so well," his mother says, sweetly. (It’s Ma-noge.) She says that Shyamalan's teachers used to mangle it, so when he was a teenager he came up with Night. His father tells me that his son always felt a kinship with the Native Americans, and that the word resonated for them because the elders told their children stories around the fire in the evening and because you can see the universe only at night.