"I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within."

-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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“And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.”
“I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.”

Source : "Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.
“I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.”
“I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars...”

Source : Ted Hughes (2011). “Letters of Ted Hughes”, p.6, Faber & Faber
“I learnt that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not,”
“Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.”

Source : Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press
“In the end, you really want to make the best film that you can, and in the reality of the filmmaking world, you have things like budgets.”
“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.”

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