A Quote by Douglas Coupland

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

Douglas Coupland

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About Art Art Is Largely Space Time Visual Visual Art While Writing

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part.

Douglas Coupland

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

George Orwell

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

Khaled Hosseini

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Sarah Hall

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Justin Menkes

When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

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Adam Mansbach

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Chelsea Martin

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Roxane Gay

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Susan Jacoby

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Jeff Fisher

I started out writing largely about my own sex life, but I always tried to bring that around to the bigger picture, and how I was or wasn't in sync with the rest of the culture. And I think people appreciated that I was frank and honest about sex, but also political.

Rachel Kramer Bussel

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George Orwell

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.