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To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. ↗

— John James Audubon

#good #me

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#i #influences #know #more #other

I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#clues #continue #could #develop #fascinating

I am a believer and a conformist. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#believer #conformist #i #i am

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#difficult #forced #historians #history #make

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#ideally #material #more #possibly #should

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#considered #day #destroy #every #every day

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. ↗

— Frank Auerbach

#i #like #living #living thing #make

I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around. ↗

— Eric Avery

#around #buck #considered #experience #first

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#get #lives #look #part #past