"I didn't mind writing incoherently, up until about 1980, occasionally. But after that, I decided, might as well be articulate. And I found, though, that writing poetry affected my prose to the point where I never again wrote in one draft, and my prose just took longer and longer and longer. It took longer and longer to come up with an acceptable text. And that's probably one of the reasons that my output has slowed down."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Richard Meltzer

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Might Quotes

“What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.”
“Life is the path you beat while you walk it.”
“Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.”
“Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.”
“So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.”

Source : Interview with Rob Walker, silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.
“What makes us most human is not whether we are or are not biologically driven and determined beings; but, rather, how we respond to this relative truth. The conscious choices we make in related to the dynamic, psychobiological forces of the daimonic define our humanity.”

Source : Stephen A. Diamond (1996). “Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity”, p.179, SUNY Press
“I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.”
“Who doesnt love a funny girl who can look sexy at the same time?”

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