Gregory Allen Howard quotes

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.
-- Gregory Allen Howard

#Writing #Thinking #Order

Home is a complex and resonant idea.
-- Gregory Allen Howard

#Home #Ideas #Complexes

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.
-- Gregory Allen Howard

#Ideas #Literature #Rooms

I was interested in writing a child's understanding of a cataclysmic event - something experienced in fragments, whispers, viewed from around corners - and it seemed to me a child would try to understand it through stories and games, which distort and change the experience, then become the experience.
-- Gregory Allen Howard

#Children #Writing #Games

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.
-- Gregory Allen Howard

#Trying #Way #Return

One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.
-- Gregory Allen Howard

#Might #Curious #Form

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.

That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.