"Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process."

-- Brett Dennen

#Pain Quotes #Creative Quotes #Process Quotes

“We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.”
“There is no abstract Evil; you have to understand that! Its roots are here, all around us, in this herd that goes on chewing and having a good time only an hour after a murder! That's what you have to fight for. For people. Evil is a hydra with many heads, and the more of them you cut off, the more it grows! Hydras have to be starved to death, do you understand that? Kill a hundred Dark Ones, and a thousand more will take their place.”
“I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.”

Source : "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.
“No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.”
“I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways.”
“Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.”
“You can only be stupid when you're young.”
“Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!”

Source : Bret Harte (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated)”, p.6563, Delphi Classics

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