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“All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counte...”
“You might think of a thought as an invisible, innocuous little thing. Something that barely exists. But a thought is something hard to conceal. Hold a thought and it melts all over your hands. Touc...”
“Life is a great big beautiful three-ring circus. There are those on the floor making their lives among the heads of lions and hoops of fire, and those in the stands, complacent and wowed, their mou...”
“Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.”
“Stop teasing you two, Suzy jumped in, not all of Kathys ideas are wacky.Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?”
“Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.”
“They do not discover anything new after that, they only learn how to understand better and better the secret entrusted to them at the outset; their creative effort goes into an unending exegesis, a...”
“For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express h...”
“Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.”
“We live in a universe driven by chance, his father had said once, but the bullshit artists all want causality.”
“Glory is reserved for the twisted minds.”
“That friend of hers has got to go, though. You're lucky you got stuck with that Dexter guy instead of”
“He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.”
“The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.”
“Trust me. What a phrase. Is it a phrase or an idiom? I was never a wordsmith and I was too far along in life to even attempt to tackle a problem as complicated as words. Do writers struggle as much...”
“Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer wit...”
“Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight.”
“#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mozaiah T.”
“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of them that believes--nay, knows--the world turns for ...”
“Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, th...”
