Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation.
When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.