While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method…

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable…

— George Bernard Shaw

What's impossible not to notice, though - it's all around us - is the diminution of American prose: How pedestrian it has become. Pick…

— Cynthia Ozick

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

— Marjane Satrapi

“Gerard Manley Hopkins somewhere describes how he mesmerized a duck by drawing a line of chalk out in front of it. Think of me…

— Nicholson Baker

Children should transcribe favourite passages. --A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose…

— Charlotte Mason

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

— Carol Tavris

“In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.”

— Anthony Doerr

Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live.

— Hank Azaria

As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.

— Gary Hamel

“A transcription doesn’t so much repeat words as contextualize and historicize them, uniting them with the time, place, and source of their utterance. A…

— William Flesch

But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of…

— George Steiner

Children should Transcribe favourite Passages. A certain sense of possession and delight may be added to this exercise if children are allowed to choose…

— Charlotte Mason

I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from…

— Sheri S. Tepper

It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the…

— Sydney Brenner

The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short…

— Henry Seidel Canby