#ark

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you. ↗

— David Talbot

#blessing #dollars #duke #kept #lot

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome. ↗

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides. ↗

— Junichiro Tanizaki

#darkness #find #itself #light #only

My novels aren't really generated by a single conceptual spark; it's more a process of many different elements that come together unexpectedly over a long period of time. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#conceptual #different #different elements #elements #generated

I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can. ↗

— Lili Taylor

#central park #get #i #i can #i love

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#darkness #hands #men #nature #out

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#darkness #give #increase #light #which

Many aspects of the writing life have changed since I published my first book, in the 1960s. It is more corporate, more driven by profits and marketing, and generally less congenial - but my day is the same: get out of bed, procrastinate, sit down at my desk, try to write something. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#bed #book #changed #congenial #corporate

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#books #finding #four #great #i

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#darkness #element #end #face #finite