Argument Quote by Nicholas G. Carr

“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of…

— Alain de Botton

When I write, I see the pages in my head, not the words.

— Tom King

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

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal…

— Ernest Dimnet

I learned a long time ago that if I really wanted to bring my ideas into experience, I needed to write down my intentions.…

— Mary Manin Morrissey

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

— Shirley Hazzard

When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

— Dani Shapiro

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

— David Eagleman

I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky;…

— George R. R. Martin

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's…

— Simon McBurney

It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do…

— Julie Delpy

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

— Daniel Tammet