"Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does."

-- Anne Roiphe

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.”
“And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.68, Penguin
“[Antinatalism ] seems to oppose the idea of writing anything at all. To reproduce is to pass on genes. To write is to pass on memes. In that sense, it really is a kind of reproduction, which antinatalism should, theoretically, oppose, or at least which I feel that it opposes emotionally in my own experience.”
“You know you've been in flow when time seems to have disappeared.”
“The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”
“Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.”
“I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.”
“The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.”

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