Alice Weaver Flaherty famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Learning #Ideas #Creative
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Writing #Men #Ideas
Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Dog #Writing #Sleep
It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Fun #Feelings
Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Neurology #Should #Psychiatry
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Ideas #Skins #Wasps
What made me empathic was my depressions.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Made
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Writing #Blood #People

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israelâ€™s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.
Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Alice Weaver Flaherty famous quotes

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