#writ

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law. ↗

— Robert Bork

#before #being #brought #equality #fourteenth

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#black #fact #facts #fiction #fictional

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#apart #before #behind #double #everything

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #input #interesting #interpretations #lot

Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me. There's that little bit that holds on: 'Well, I'm almost an atheist. Give me a couple of months.' ↗

— David Bowie

#always #atheist #because #been #bit

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. ↗

— David Bowie

#some #songs #strangely #want #write

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated. ↗

— David Bowie

#christ #different #different way #each #explore

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#been #drawing #i #long #longer

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone. ↗

— Brandon Boyd

#domesticated #female #john #john lennon #lennon

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience