Quotes by Different We approach nonfiction at a much different level than we approach fiction or poetry or drama: that there's almost no room for metaphor. We expect the "I" in any nonfiction text to be an autobiographical "I" when there is a history in the essay of the "I" being a persona. John D'Agata metaphordifferentdrama Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes. John Cage differentprocesstrying It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other. John Darnielle referencingprojectsdifferent People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were. Jodi Picoult differentpeopleway There are disagreements over whether autism is something that should be always and all the time embraced and celebrated as just a different way to be human, or whether autism sometimes can be really so debilitating to individuals that you want to do something to change those disabilities in them. John Donvan autismdifferentwant It can be difficult to mediate a compromise between what I have in my head and what the musician has in mind, which is often 180° different when it comes to the finished product, so it requires that element of trust from somewhere. The point I make to them is "You've seen what I do, so just trust me and we will come up with something exciting." John Dyer Baizley musiciandifferentmind I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?' John Cleese differentparentthinking I use about 20 different colours to retain the luminance in my work. John Dyer colourdifferentuse I studied for my degree in London and consequently ended up spending five years away from Cornwall. I deliberately moved away from the coast to experience a different way of life. John Dyer degreesdifferentyears The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16. John Cusack differentagetwo There's something human that has to do with time and space and being who I am that is in progress and always will be in progress. And who I am, on different days, different moments, depends on different aspects of my past. John Edgar Wideman progressdifferentpast It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.) John Edensor Littlewood rocksdifferentstrong Even dogs and horses have their actions modified by association with human beings; they form different habits because human beings are concerned with what they do. John Dewey horsedifferentdog We all come from the same root, but the leaves are all different. John Fire Lame Deer differentroots Being a teenager isn't all that different from being part of someone else's story. There's always someone who thinks they know better than you do Jodi Picoult teenagerdifferentthinking And now for something completely different... John Cleese nudge-nudgeholy-graildifferent Another thing that makes the process different is we go in there and are completely immersed in [that] world for however many weeks and then we would leave and they would be animating for however many weeks and we wouldn't have anything to do with it. Then we would come back and see all this work that they had done. So it just took a lot more time than it would on anything else. John Francis Daley differentdonewould-be There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself. John Dos Passos differentcreativewriting I'm making progress if today's problems are different from yesterday's. John Foster Dulles progressdifferentyesterday Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different. Jim Rohn creativitydifferentneeds«193194195196197198199200201202203»
