"The problems you have as a novelist tend to have to do with making a living and trying to find ways to supplement the income you get from writing novels. For a lot of writers, that involves teaching. In my case, so far, I've been able to get by working in Hollywood with this TV stuff I've been doing. And it's very important, because my wife is a writer, too, and we don't have health insurance through any employer."

-- Michael Chabon

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“The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics
“Napoleon is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.”

Source : "How we made - Napoleon". Interview with Pamela Hutchinson, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2013.
“Generally, all my life, I have had strong friction with life - I was a problematic soldier, I was kicked out of the army, I was in fights. There was something about writing that was a way of experimenting with this emotion.”
“And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.”

Source : Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree
“...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.”
“Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.”
“The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.”

Source : John Bayley (1999). “Iris and the friends: a year of memories”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
“I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.”

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