Art Quote by Bertrand Russell

“For a long time I was continually putting off the next step in my exploration because I felt I ought to know more, knew…

— Marion Milner

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“...habit of speaking in paragraphs.”

— Frank Delaney

“I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the pleasure and…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which…

— Charles Darwin

“The words were before him, and yet I thought he wasn't reading them from the paper, but from the pages of his memory, from…

— Diana Gabaldon

“I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where…

— Tina M. Randolph

“He began to write his thoughts and observations concerning the day's events [...] It helped him better understand everything he had seen and done…

— Christopher Paolini

“one writerly habit was describing everything I did, no matter how absorbing or how trivial, as if I were standing outside myself and watching.”

— Gloria Steinem

“The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely formulated only a few minutes earlier, were suffering a curious collapse…

— Thomas Hardy

“A friend who teaches at a top university once asked her class to memorize thirty lines of the eighteenth-century poet Alexander Pope. Every single…

— William Deresiewicz

“I began to make notes. I began to write down everything I saw and heard and remembered and imagined. I began to write, or…

— Joan Didion