"Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice."

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Source : Sara Paretsky (2007). “Writing in an Age of Silence”, Verso Books

Sara Paretsky

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“The things that stop you having sex with age are exactly the same as those that stop you riding a bicycle.”

Source : Alex Comfort (2003). “The Joy of Sex”, p.226, Simon and Schuster
“For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!”
“Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.”
“I have no skanky guys in my band nor on my bus. If they are they get the boot real quick”
“Music comes from a place we don't know.”
“No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.”
“The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.”

Source : Keith F. Davis, Nancy Barrett, John H. Lawrence, Clarence John Laughlin (1990). “Clarence John Laughlin: visionary photographer”, Hallmark Card Inc

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