WritingRedux.com - quotes to note
Collection by Beatrice Otto • Last updated 11 weeks ago
Sharing bright writing gathered over decades of attentive reading and highlighted at www.writingredux.com - enjoy!
A weight of glory
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On #certainty & #doubt
This #quotation of Robert Rubin resonated, found in Susan Cain's Quiet (a reassuring read if you share such a sense of doubt and wonder from time to time if you might be 'introverted'). See: www.writingredux.com/quote-certain-of-everything/ #Christmas countdown #quote - #quotations #quiet #introverts #susancain
A thought on science & art
Christmas countdown quote - seen on a wall at EPFL, a thought on science and art - see also Hungarian composer Kodaly: www.writingredux.com/quote-the-scientist-and-the-artist/ quotations quotes ideas artists scientists
George Eliot on being #kind to #dogs
The protagonist of George Eliot's Middlemarch is always #kind to #dogs - WritingRedux #Christmas #quotes - #quote #quotations #literature #kindness #bekind #animals #pets
George Eliot on the need to focus
A quote from George Eliot's Middlemarch on the need to focus - know the feeling? WritingRedux #Christmas #quotes #quote #quotation #literature
Quote: Seamus Heaney on the creative process
WritingRedux #Christmas #quotes - #poet #SeamusHeaney on the #creativeprocess in #writing, tho' I believe it applies to other #creative acts. #quote #quotation #creativity #abundance
Quote - John Donne's 'No Man Is An Island'
A 17th century #poem long since learned by heart & as resonant as ever during a #pandemic - John Donne's 'No Man Is An Island' - click below to enjoy illustrated text & #audio versions - WritingRedux #Christmas #quotes - #quote #quotation #podcast #poetry #poets #literature
Robert Capa describes having to deal with not one, but three Steinbecks
A wonderful account of Capa's complaints about his friend John Steinbeck. For the full quotation, including a podcast audio version, see the link below. #friends #friendship #writing #travel #complaint #podcast
Robert Capa explains why he couldn't miss an invasion
The photographer Robert Capa, known for his searing images of war, explains why he couldn't miss an invasion. In the event, his dedication to war reporting cost him his life. #photography #photographer #correspondent #war
Steinbeck on the status of writers in the USA and the Soviet Union
On his 1946 trip to the Soviet Union, Steinbeck had several conversations with literary groups. Here his dry humour explains to his hosts the different view of writers in the U.S. as compared to the Soviet Union. #writers #writing #literature #literary #Russia
John Steinbeck on being lost in Russia
In 1946 John Steinbeck and Robert Capa spent a month travelling in the Soviet Union. Here Steinbeck describes their arrival. His slim journal is a masterpiece of funny, compassionate, truthful reporting. #travel #Russia #writing #writer
Robert Capa's wry 'legitimate complaint' about John Steinbeck
In 1946 Robert Capa and his friend John Steinbeck travelled together in the Soviet Union. The wonderful book they published includes a short 'legitimate complaint' by Capa, a delight to read. #travel #Russia #friendship #friends #photographer #photography
Virginia Woolf's Orlando on the magical fabric of life
We forget, mostly, that we live in a time of unprecedented mass luxury and ease. Here such a reflection occurs to Orlando, in comparing her life in the 18th versus the 20th centuries. #technology #progress #invention #modern #life
Mervyn Peake on a passionate gardener
This gardener, who tends the castle grounds of the monstrous pile of Gormenghast, is driven by something more than the beauty and colour of the flowers he grows, rather by their vital sap or something similar. #gardening #gardens #knowledge #botany #quote #quotation #literature
Vasily Grossman on choosing truthful writing over being safe & avoiding criticism.
Here the Russian author Vasily Grossman resists editorial efforts to render his novel 'safe', even though this delayed the publication of his novel. #writer #writing #author #literature #novel #integrity #Russia #Russian #SovietUnion #quote #quotation
#GeorgeEliot on #maths, #geometry & the power of #Euclid to bring on toothache.
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