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“The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.”
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“I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.”
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“Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”
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“Commitment to a set of rules frees your play to attain a profundity and vigor otherwise impossible.”
Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.84, Penguin
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“Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.”
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“Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.”
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“Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.”
Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey
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“At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.”
Source : D.J. MacHale (2009). “Pendragon: Quillan Games”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
