"The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all."

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Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.14, Del Rey

Terry Brooks

#Might Quotes #Muse Quotes

“I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.”

Source : Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. August 14, 2012.
“I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.”

Source : Frank O'Connor (1981). “Collected stories”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.”
“And now I'm using sarcasm, to confess the whole thing so later I could say I already told you.”
“Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.”
“Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.”
“The human experience of weakness is God's blueprint for calling attention to the supremacy of his Son. When miserably failing people continue to belong to, believe in, and worship Jesus, God is happy.”
“The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends....”

Source : "Lytton Strachey". Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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