Mark Alan Stamaty famous quotes

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Writing #Diaries #Eighteen

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Art #School #Class

My parents were into 40s big band stuff, and my father was a great dancer to that kind of thing. But rock 'n' roll? No. I wanted a guitar, but my mother didn't really want me to have one. At some point I played a violin, but I didn't last long at that.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Mother #Father #Rocks

I like to follow my own muse.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Muse #My Own

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Real #Eye #People

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Reality #Illustration #Feelings

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Energy #Pieces #Exciting

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Art #Want #Fine

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?
-- Mark Alan Stamaty

#Space #Want #Time And Space

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.