"I had never understood quite so clearly the effective power of Jane Jacob's writing - no, her clear-headed observation - as I did reading â€œWhat We Seeâ€. Maybe that's really the point of writing. That if you take the time to look, to really observe, then you see what is happening, and, with the clarity of that vision, you can act to save neighborhoods."

-- Nancy Milford

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Vision Quotes

“By the age of three ... I was already an addicted reader. I still crave daily immersion in experience other than my own; (it needn't be more pleasant, exciting or illuminating -- merely other) and I still fall into books as though into catalepsy.”
“If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.”
“You're put in certain situations and it kind of opens up those doors and it opens up your eyes to realize what your true calling was.”
“Lies are like sleeping pills. You should only use them when you absolutely have to. They spoil everything if you make a habit of them.”
“Personally, the songs that I've written, when they arrive to the CafÃ© Tacvba group , they become something more. Some begin to take spiritual aspects, political aspects, aspects that I had not initially put into the song. I think that's something magical that happens in our creations.”
“Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.”
“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Source : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”
“You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.”

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