"When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a muse. You can hear music on the streets. There's a certain character the city has that inspires you when you're needing to write lyrics and come up with melodies and come up with rhythm and blues. The city has a pulse and it's an inspiration for me."

-- Chris Thomas King

#Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes #Character Quotes

“Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.”
“I am the Great White Buffalo and I play an American-made Gibson guitar that can blow your head clean off at 100 paces.”
“Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.”
“I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that kid of stuff. I'd paint birds. Anything that moved, stuff like that.”
“But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.”
“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
“Big writers become a kind of shared climate.”

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