"Whether your purpose for writing is artistic expression, communication with friends and family, the healing of the inner life, or achieving public recognition for your art - the foundation is the same: the claiming of yourself as an artist/writer and the strengthening of your writing voice through practice, study, and helpful response from other writers."

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Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.22, Oxford University Press

Pat Schneider

#Art Quotes #Communication Quotes #Healing Quotes

“Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way. "It's three thirty in the morning." "Okay. Want coffee?”
“The way America appreciates cinema is different from anywhere in the world. It's celebrated and supported. I don't just mean by the individuals, but financially as well people are throwing money at certain projects.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.”

Source : "Protecting Children and Workers Around the Globe" by Sec. Hilda Solis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2010.
“There's not a comedy actor who doesn't want a chance to do drama, and vice versa. As actors, we're always looking to be pushed and to do the other side of the coin.”
“The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.”
“Four years ago nobody but nuclear physicists had ever heard of the Internet. Today even my cat, Socks, has his own web page. I'm amazed at that. I meet kids all the time, been talking to my cat on the Internet.”
“I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.”

Source : "Fictional character: Martin Riggs". "Lethal Weapon", www.imdb.com. 1987.
“Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues the most capital of all duties, and uses the words grateful and good as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.”

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