The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. Alice Weaver Flaherty More Quotes by Alice Weaver Flaherty More Quotes From Alice Weaver Flaherty How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies. Alice Weaver Flaherty color writing men A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting. Alice Weaver Flaherty learning creative ideas Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to. Alice Weaver Flaherty dog sleep writing It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker. Alice Weaver Flaherty controlled feelings fun Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ. Alice Weaver Flaherty psychiatry neurology should What made me empathic was my depressions. Alice Weaver Flaherty made What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons. Alice Weaver Flaherty writing blood people
