Lucid Quotations

Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

One thought came to mind when I first considered working with Symetrix... potential. Not only is the company a global player in the installed sound market, the AirTools profanity delays are becoming industry standards in the broadcast community. In addition, there are some very exciting new Lucid product offerings scheduled to be launched early in 2006! Then, of course, there is the impeccable quality reputation of the Symetrix brand itself.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

When you're making the film, you don't really think the audience; it's only when you start editing that you really start to became aware of your audience because you're thinking of how you communicate these ideas, and how lucid can you be, and yet stay within the language you've established.

When the wake-initiated lucid dream occurs, I stretch rope from a window to another And I dance.

Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand lucid in order, solid and at hand; spend not your words on trifles but condense; strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense; press to the close with vigor, once begun, and leave - how hard the task

All the physicians and authors in the world could not give a clear account of his madness. He is mad in patches, full of lucid intervals.