Writers are lucky. Whatever the mood, no matter the longing, the writer can use his words to connect himself to any world he wishes to visit.
Interpretation
Writers have the unique ability to use their words to escape reality and explore different emotions and worlds.
This quote highlights the power of writing as a tool for creativity and exploration. Writers can express their inner feelings, desires, and imaginations through words, allowing them to transcend their immediate surroundings and experience different worlds and perspectives, all through the magic of language.
In practice
In a writing workshop, a facilitator might say, 'As Alan Zweibel reminds us, writers are lucky to connect with any world they wish through their craft.'
I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
But I really resist categories β that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art β those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.
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