If something's not working, it's wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, 'Actually, you've gone off the deep end here'.
Interpretation
Trusting feedback from a reliable source can help correct our misguided paths.
This quote emphasizes the importance of having a trusted confidant who can provide honest and constructive criticism when we veer off course. In creative pursuits and life decisions, it's invaluable to have someone who can objectively assess our choices and help us recognize when we need to reassess our approach.
In practice
In a workshop on creative writing, you could use this quote to encourage participants to seek trusted peers for feedback.
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
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