Pat Pattison famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never let reality get in the way of truth
-- Pat Pattison

#Reality #Way
What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.
-- Pat Pattison

#Writing #Character #Trying
YOU CAN'T TELL UNLESS YOU SHOW FIRST. ... Showing makes the telling more powerful because your senses and your mind are both engaged.
-- Pat Pattison

#Powerful #Writing #Mind
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.
-- Pat Pattison

#Writing #Support #Creative
Songs are your best teachers. I try to learn something from every song I hear
-- Pat Pattison

#Teacher #Song #Trying
Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.
-- Pat Pattison

#Writing #Growing #Chance

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.
She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.

Pat Pattison famous quotes

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