"My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist."

-- Chris Ware

#Mother Quotes #Artist Quotes

“With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I'm not a marketing tool, I'm not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.”
“I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.”
“In Bulgarian I am much more flowery, the sentences are wilder. In English out of necessity I try to be clear and disciplined. I realized by writing in English there is so much more to writing a good story than the style.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.”
“Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?”
“She was not brokenhearted because the relationship had ended suddenly; she was brokenhearted because it had never truly ended.”

Source : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.58, Macmillan
“As I write, invariably I encounter more questions and answer those as I go.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

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