"In Moscaâ€™s experience, a â€˜long storyâ€™ was always a short story someone did not want to tell."

-- Frances Hardinge

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“A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like.”
“I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.”
“We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.”
“You're playing the songs for the audience and they still think they're good songs. So I tend to get excited by that, audience reaction.”
“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source : Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press
“Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.”
“PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.”
“Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? Itâ€™s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.”

Source : Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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