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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 — James Baldwin, Another Country
The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the musi — Robert Black
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 att — Bruce Crown, How Dim the Promised Land
The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. — A.D. Posey
I was asked, ‘When is the next book release, it’s been over a year since the last book release, have you given up writin — Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insu — Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word
Bedtime is daytime, and we come into bloom after midnight. — Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
#Writers, #artists , and #poets don't get the respect they deserve until they are either dead, or they cut off an ear Mo — Mozaiah Thompson
When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every a — Hannah Strom-Martin
If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred callin — Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life
Every artist takes their final work to the grave. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. T — Ursula K. Le Guin, Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew
It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders. — Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but — Robert Black
But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not — Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco, On Literature
To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save — Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in the cl — Thomas Ligotti, The Nightmare Factory
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. — Arthur C. Clarke