"For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too."

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Source : Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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“The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.”
“Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.”
“There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.”
“Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.8, Adam, Stevenson
“One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere, the curvature is the same everywhere, as opposed to, say, an egg, which clearly does not curve the same everywhere. This is what makes spheres geometrically important. Mathematically speaking, a sphere has positive curvature and a hyperbolic surface has negative curvature, but both have constant curvature everywhere.”
“The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.”
“Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it.”
“Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.”

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