"The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down."

“Some people I see - people who do more or less have prerecorded tracks - their persona is such that the visual side of just them is way more important and multi-dimensional. Me, I'm boring to look at.”

Source : "The GQ&A: Miike Snow Doesn't Just Hit 'Play'". Interview With Lauren Larson, www.gq.com. March 10, 2016.

“You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.”

“Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.”

“As a painter, taking photos is a form of shorthand - note-taking.”

“any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.”

Source : Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr

“This is what I want you all to do. I want you to open a new document and type up a list of three problems in your life. Not the universe's life - your own. Underneath, type the solutions." "If we know the solutions," said Belle, "they're not problems." "Exactly," said Denny. "You do know the answers to most of your problems. Somewhere deep inside, you know.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2013). “A Corner of White: The Colors of Madeleine, Book One”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

“I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.”

Source : Toast to the artists Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo in Madrid, June 25, 1884.