We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete.
Interpretation
Writers tend to embed personal elements in their work, revealing part of themselves through their writing.
This quote by Ross Macdonald emphasizes the idea that writers gradually infuse their personal experiences and identity into their craft. As they grow in skill, they inevitably leave traces of their individuality in their works, similar to how a burglar leaves behind evidence. This highlights the intimate connection between the writer and their creations, where the act of writing becomes a means of self-revelation.
In practice
In a talk about the writing process during a workshop, one might say, 'As writers, we often leave our fingerprints on our stories, revealing who we are.'
You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is the most important aspect. I think my architecture is some kind of frame of nature. With it, we can experience nature more deeply and more intimately. Transparency is a characteristic of Japanese architecture; I try to use light and natural materials to get a new kind of transparency.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
I can't say what people use the experience of listening to songs for, but I would never tell somebody what it is supposed to mean. That defeats the purpose of making it. Hopefully, whoever connects with it connects with it in their own way, and it can mean whatever it is supposed to mean to them.
Everybody must have a fantasy.
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
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