Gerrit Noordzij quotes

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.
-- Gerrit Noordzij

#Writing #Space #Design

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.

Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

I always knew I was going to die in space.

I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’