"The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it."

-- Diane Wakoski

“I saw The Empire Strikes Back the week that it came out. My father was a huge Star Wars fan. And so when it came out, my dad took me.”
“I kind of do high-low style a lot.”
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

Source : Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)
“Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't believe that everyone should see alike.”
“Of course, if one ignores contradictory observations, one can claim to have an "elegant" or "robust" theory. But it isn't science.”
“We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better be to make you strong to fight that power. Take your languor and easy tears somewhere else. Above all, don't pretty us up. Tell yourself: None of this ever had to happen. And then go make it stop, with whatever breath you have left. Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”
“The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.”
“I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.”

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