"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society."
Alexis Korner
"Stay within the confines of your chosen topic. If you start to stray away from your topic and find an urge to showcase everything that you know, resist that urge. Remember that you are writing a book, not the book."
Gudjon Bergmann
Inspiration
The archaeologists of the future will find themselves excavating heaps of our discarded junk, picking through mountains of DVDs and yoghurt pots and wondering: “who the fuck were these idiots?
Chris Thomas
Inspiration
Many people in a rather reckless context claim to 'just tell it like it is'. In actuality, nobody really stresses what one says so much as the motive behind what one says; hence, he is merely blowing hot air and detracting from 'what is'.
Author
"That's half of your trouble,' muttered the crocodile. 'You believe everything's true.'That's because everything is,' replied Mr. Bacchus."
Clive Barker
"And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life."
David McCullough Jr.
"To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inverted version of the mainstream's 'everything's fine."
Unknown
"Integrity comes not from privilege, textbooks, or profession, but from being grounded in humility."
Anonymous
"What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light."
Unknown
"Have a very good reason for everything you do."
Laurence Olivier
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
Mark Twain
Inspiration
We can never controlThe World, but from Ourselves we are the Master.Jan Jansen.
Jan Jansen
"I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink."
Sonya Hartnett
"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation."
Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration
I always tell my writing students that every good piece of writing begins with both a mystery and a love story. And that every single sentence must be a poem. And that economy is the key to all good writing. And that every character has to have a secret.
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