"William Faulkner was the master of what one must do to be serious. But I don't understand why people haven't moved forward from that, why that's not where the line in the sand is that you would see from. When I think about the reception of my own writing and what seems "difficult," there is an actual precedent."

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Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

Douglas A. Martin

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.”
“If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend itâ€™s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home.”
“Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.”
“There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you canâ€™t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.”
“Everyday, all day I have to be productive. And when I ain't productive, I get concerned.”

Source : Interview With Dan Hyman, music.avclub.com. December 20, 2011.
“Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...”

Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
“There is reason to smile and celebrate when you win, but when you struggle, that is about laughter. That is the pathos that is rooted in all comedy. And business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.”
“Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.”

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