"A writer, or any artist, canâ€™t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because itâ€™s your calling."

-- Patti Smith

#Artist Quotes #People Quotes #Calling Quotes

“For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.”

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“I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.”
“Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains had been incapable of graspingthe notion of one man standing up against the whole world...................To me it was the ultimate book: once youhad read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
“You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.”
“You can go anywhere in New York. There's always something to do in New York. There's always a place to eat no matter what time it is. There's always a place to work, a place to drink. It's conducive to my lifestyle. I don't know how to drive a car, so I like to be able to walk places.”
“The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.”
“I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can”
“I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.”

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