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  • Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 19, 2013
  • The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

    Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.37, Hamilton Books
  • If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  • But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.

    Fun   Ambition   Garden  
  • How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

    Life   Beautiful   Book  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin
  • The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

    Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
  • The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

    FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013
  • Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

    Artist   Medicine   Steps  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.

  • It was this feeling for a lot of my characters, who are dissidents or banned artists and writers, that they had had to fight living under so much surveillance, and then suddenly they come to America and they're like, I'm not being surveilled - I'm not even being noticed at all.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

    Humor   Artist   Depth  
    James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”
  • I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

    Art   Hero   Games  
    Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage
  • It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

    Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.65, Routledge
  • I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

    Art   Escaping   World  
  • I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

    Life   Beauty   Beautiful  
    William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth, Ernest De Selincourt, Alan G. Hill, Chester Linn Shaver (1967). “The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth: Volume VIII. A Supplement of New Letters”, p.51, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  • The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

    1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.
  • The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

    Statement on April 14, 1775. "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, 1791.
  • Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.

    Artist   People   Culture  
  • The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

  • So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.
  • Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

  • A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

    Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.9, Dell
  • Easy reading is damn hard writing.

  • The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe artists and writers who stayed up all night and ignored the pressures of the industrial world.

    Artist   Night   World  
    Sarah Thornton (2012). “Seven Days In The Art World”, p.66, Granta Books
  • The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.

    War   Artist   Government  
  • Teachers have been heroes to me, as well as artists and writers, and I'm honored to be among their ranks. There is always a lot of grousing about the academy. I suppose it comes from our all-American anti-authoritarianism.

    Teacher   Hero   Artist  
    Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.
  • The term comics long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the early joke-based comical strips. Sequential Art is a more accurate description of the form. I first suggested it because I believed something needed to be done to correct the feeling of inferiority by artists and writers in this field.

    Art   Long Ago   Feelings  
  • Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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