So I've always wondered, when famous people are quoted, where do those quotes come from? Like when we say Napoleon said 'A throne is just a bench covered in velvet' did he just say that to someone who then wrote it down? Or was it part of a big speech about park furniture, and it that way are we taking his quote out of context?
I don't know about you guys (and I also don't know how much I have been affected by sound-bite culture, excessive television consumption and Twitter) but when I think creatively, I think in one of two ways:
1. A stream of dialogue
2. Series of very small, very direct sentences
This is an example of a stream of dialogue that comes into my brain:
1: Do you ever think about what the subject of sad love songs think?
2: There's no such thing as a sad love song.
1: Are you a moron? All love songs are sad!
2: There may be songs about lost love but isn't it better to have loved and...?
1: If you finish that sentence, I swear you are going over that wall.
2: It's a fact!
1: It's a cliché. A cliché that people in love repeat over and over to stop sad people complaining and tainting their happiness.
2: Not my fault you're sour.
This is an example of some random sentences:
She was the sensible daughter of a reputable man.
I will take this secret to my grave, because I do not know the people we were well enough anymore to ask their permission to share it.
(never said any of this was good, just putting it out there)
These are two very annoying ways of thinking because no writing, a quote or a song lyric or a poem or a line for a book can (or should) exist without a context. It makes the words hollow and weak and futile.
I am only telling you this because, I think, we live in world where people are constantly trying to create those quotes and quotable moments. And I don't know whether to embrace it or try to change myself.
Or I could give up?
