Communication is too often misunderstood to mean either persuasion or sharing—convincing someone of your perspective or simply informing them of it.
“Remember that the first rule when editing a book is to DO NO HARM.”
― The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
― The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
“Stories drag you through the mud of multiple emotions and through the thorn-tangle of thinky thoughts.”
― Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
― Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
“Too much advertising had turned the spontaneity of ‘la vie bohème’ into a huge commercial success,” recalled Montparnasse bartender Jimmie Charters.”
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“As far as I can see, this is a problem with living in the twenty-first century. Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered. No one I knew in the 1600s wanted to find their inner billionaire. They just wanted to live to see adolescence and avoid body lice.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
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