#rite

Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion. ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#always #been #classical #classical music #enabled

Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth! ↗

— Malcolm Arnold

#am #another #been #donald #expert

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#control #form #group #living #me

A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear. ↗

— Caroline Gerardo

#inspirational

Men loved her but she was the woman, all women loved to hate. She was Bridget Jones gone wrong. She knew the price of everything and the value of nothing. ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #love

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. ~Dorothea Brande ↗

— Dorothea Brande

#writers #writing #inspirational

The Massalians are not dualists but monarchians, and they have dealings with the infernal powers, and in fact some texts call them Borborites, from borboros, filth, because of the unspeakable things they do." "What do they do?" "The usual unspeakable things. Men and women hold in the palm of their hand, and raise to heaven, their own ignominy, namely, sperm or menstruum, then eat it, calling it the Body of Christ. And if by chance a woman is made pregnant, at the opportune moment they stick a hand into her womb, pull out the embryo, throw it into a mortar, mix in some honey and pepper, and gobble it up." "How revolting, honey and pepper!" Diotallevi said. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#transubstantiation #men

Why would I ever write a book that made one person feel free when I can write something that will help thousands be free? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#inspiration #writers #writing #inspirational

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence. ↗

— Michelle Geaney

#life #poets #writers #inspirational

Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary. ↗

— Mary M. Forbes

#inspirational #inspirational