"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Work Quotes #Holiday Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.”
“As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.”
“The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.”
“Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.”
“Recovery isnâ€™t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think youâ€™re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. Itâ€™s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.”
“People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.”
“I know that it feels dangerous and scary and working without a net, so to speak. And working without a net, for me - maybe other women do it a totally different way - means being vanity-free. That's how, as an artist, I know that I need to work.”
“It's amazing. It's actually build from old Siemens Telefunken transistors from the 60ties. There is like 10 in there. It's the most powerful distortion you can have. It does not only do distortion, it does so many weird things. You can't control it, it's sound different all the time. But it's an endless source for fantastic sounds. For example the track "Transit" is entirely made with this box. You have to put the guitar sound in. It's like a pedal.”

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