#writer

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He said books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that inserted themselves into your brain and replaced what you were seeing with your eyes. ↗

— Steven Millhauser

#writer #writing #art

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. ↗

— Christian Bauman

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While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #books #classics #creativity

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last. ↗

— Ralph Keyes

#courage #creativity #fear #risks #writers

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

#artist #excellence #mediocrity #writer #writing

I am about art here, not simple reproduction. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#art

There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#writers-on-writing #art

I have this rage that I can't explain. It's sad. ↗

— Peter Davis

#expression #writers #art

My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood. After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance sold its first million, she said I needed a place to write, other than the local bus-shelter. ↗

— Nuala Ní Chonchúir

#the-writer-s-room #art