"The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work."

-- Janet Frame

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ego Quotes

“I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.”
“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”
“Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?”
“As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.”
“Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.”
“That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.
“If you don't know it, don't write it.”
“Race seems to me to be less and less a subject worth discussing.”

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