"Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability."

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Source : Harold Adams Innis (2007). “Empire and Communications”, p.31, Rowman & Littlefield

Harold Innis

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I can't help who I fall in love with. No one can.”
“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.”
“Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.”
“I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.”
“I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.”
“Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.”
“One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin.”
“Gut health is the key to overall health.”

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