Dan Chiasson Quotes
One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this energy or potential energy...one can always check the New York Times, or look at real estate, or investigate some intriguing new person in one's life. The span and space for writing feels like a tunnel under these massive mountains of information.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
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The group-effort sound in recording of 'Sea Lion' is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. There's a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.
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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
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I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.
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I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
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It takes a lot of energy to teach.
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Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.
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Having been selected to be an author in the World Book, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias - they let me in.
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It's the same assignment on every part: you want to create a real world, and the tone of it is a little different on each movie. You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.
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Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.
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Ultimately if you're a journalist, one day you're writing about figure skating, one day a political debate. I loved that about reporting. I like throwing my energies into various corners of the world.
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'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
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L.A. just doesn't seem real to me. Chicago does. My real friends are there. It's home.
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Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.
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I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.
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It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
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'Despacito' was a song that, from the time I started writing it, I felt that its hook was really catchy and powerful but at the same time very simple.
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The power of storytelling - of elevating the voices and examples of incredible leaders who have overcome odd after odd - remains absolute.
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Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.
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It is false to say President Bush presided over a 'jobless recovery.' His trade deficits have created many millions of jobs in China.
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What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name.
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What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.
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One problem with writing on the computer, as I do, is that the page is never really 'blank." It is backed by all this energy or potential energy...one can always check the New York Times, or look at real estate, or investigate some intriguing new person in one's life. The span and space for writing feels like a tunnel under these massive mountains of information.
