"I started writing more with my voice in mind."

-- Lucinda Williams

#Writing Quotes #Voice Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.”
“If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.”
“I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you. As if there weren't far too much understanding in the world already; above all, that understanding between lovers, celebrated in song and story, which is actually such torture that no two of them can bear it without frequent separations or fights.”
“My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.”
“The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.”
“I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.”
“What a gulf between impression and expression! Thatâ€™s our ironic fateâ€”to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverseâ€”touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”

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