Feelings Quote by Aaron Belz

We just watch anything speed by. To stop and really ponder what a product label says, or the tagline on a TV commercial, might…

— Aaron Belz

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as…

— Aaron Belz

Humor and absurdism are inevitable. If you look at our current massive flow of consumer products and digital communication and related media from a…

— Aaron Belz

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them…

— Aaron Belz

The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're…

— Aaron Belz

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

— Aaron Belz

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

— Aaron Belz

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

— Aaron Belz

The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product,…

— Aaron Belz

The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

— Aaron Belz

Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out,…

— Aaron Belz

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre.…

— Aaron Belz