"When you don't have to depend upon your creative work for money, you'll never really have to compromise... Knowing that is hugely liberating as well as artistically clarifying... Being practical about where your money comes from means you can be romantic about your writing... I believe that a healthy society is one that supports its artists, but I also know that that privilege, of being only an artist, is afforded to just a small number. Most of us have to find something else - or live a highly disciplined life, which I'm not willing to do."

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

Hanya Yanagihara

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.”
“I don't care where you are, but the fans only remember your last time at bat.”
“An efficient telecommunications network is the foundation upon which an information society is built.”

Source : Speech at Arab ICT Regulators Forum, Movenpick Dead Sea, Jordan, March 21, 2004.
“Every being is a spark of the Divine, or God. Look into the eyes of the dog and sense that innermost core. When you are present, you can sense the spirit, the one consciousness, in every creature and love it as yourself.”
“Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body; it's truly love.”
“Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning”
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.”

Source : John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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