"It's helpful for me to get ideas - the physical action of painting. Sometimes it frees up your writer brain. It's nice for me now that the writing has become a serious career that painting can become more like a hobby."

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Nice Quotes #Writing Quotes #Careers Quotes

“Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.”
“A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.”
“I don't think it is too good especially with music to worry about authenticity, it can get in the way of doing something which comes naturally from your own head which is the most authentic thing [of all].”
“In art class at school we learned how to draw tanks and soldiers opening fire at [Iranian leader Ayatollah] Khomeini and his beard. They didn't teach us the names of the flowers that grew around us in the city - wild flowers of all kinds and all colors. The math teacher used to whip the kids with his trouser belt. My father was constantly violent toward my mother for the most trivial reasons.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.”
“I am a huge fan of Gwen Stefani.”

Source : AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereâ€™s no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.”
“Alliance does not mean love, any more than war means hate”

Source : Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.169, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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