Fluidity quotes

Fluidity

22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

22 quotes
Laozi
Laozi Philosopher

"When you accurately perceive the fluidity of things, you can also begin to perceive the constancy behind them: the creative, transformative, boundless, immutable Tao."

Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith Novelist, Essayist

"To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the key without even recognizing that this is what you hold."

Truman Capote
Truman Capote Author, Journalist

"Technically I feel total fluidity in writing. I feel there's nothing technically that I can't do the way a certain sort of pianist feels that. But that doesn't mean it comes easily. It doesn't."

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