Becoming Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a…

— W. S. Di Piero

When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of…

— Martin Amis

“A story unwritten is without beginning or end. But in its potential lies another story; and in the heartbeat before pen meets page, both…

— Nenia Campbell

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

— Maureen Corrigan

“[Economics] is all about observing the world with genuine curiosity and admitting that it is full of mysteries”

— Steven E. Landsburg

I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects…

— David Cronenberg

It is part of the pholosophic dullness of our time that there are millions of rational monsters walking about on their hind legs, observing…

— Martin Gardner

My standup persona is like I'll heighten things, but I'm observing the world as it is in sort of a heightened emotional state.

— John Mulaney

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul.…

— Carl Jung

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul.

— Carl Jung

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and…

— Jane Siberry

The coming to consciousness is not a discovery of some new thing; it is a long and painful return to that which has always…

— Helen M. Luke