Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and…

If reality and fiction are equal, then any reality you dont need can just be called delusion. Thats how we do things.

— Erika Karisawa

Writing is looking for music between sentences.

— John Densmore

Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.

— Mary Oliver

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and…

— Masiela Lusha

I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of…

— Brady Corbet

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a…

— Michael Chabon

“Rhythm. Life is full of it; words should have it, too. But you have to train your ear. Listen to the waves on a…

— Arthur Gordon

Your cadence is your music.

— William Shatner

I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world. I was drunk with it, with the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“a faster cadence put less stress on the muscles, transferring the load from the physical (the muscle fibers) to a better place: the cardiovascular…

— Tyler Hamilton

“Jennifer now understood the meaning of the cadence: the black and white drawing, the watercolor painting,and the notes. The cadence had at last developed…

— Barbara Casey

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily,…

— Sam Keen

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“That girl you can’t stop thinking about; the one that makes you feel shit you don’t think you’re allowed to feel; Dillon, she can’t…

— Melyssa Winchester