Alice Weaver Flaherty Quotes

• ¿Cómo pudieron surgir la poesía y la literatura de algo tan plebeyo como el equivalente cuneiforme de los códigos de barras de los supermercados? Prefiero la versión en la que Prometeo trajo la escritura al hombre de manos de los dioses. Pero entonces me recuerdo a mí mismo que... no deberíamos ser demasiado exigentes sobre el origen de las grandes ideas. Al fin y al cabo, todas proceden de un órgano arrugado que en su momento más saludable tiene el color y la consistencia de la pasta de dientes, y al final sólo se marchita y muere.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Men, Color

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• Neurología y psiquiatría deberían tratar el mismo órgano.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Neurology, Should, Psychiatry

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• A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Learning, Ideas, Creative

  Journal of Comparative Neurology 493:147-153, p. 147, 2005.

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• Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Dog, Sleep, Writing

  Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Writing, Blood, People

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• It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

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  Fun, Feelings, Controlled

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• The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

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  Ideas, Skins, Wasps

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• What made me empathic was my depressions.

  Alice Weaver Flaherty

  Hecho

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