"Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all."

-- Irwin Shaw

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“If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?”
“In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.”
“Bill said, "She is mine." I wondered if my hands would move. They would. I raised both of them, making an unmistakable one-fingered gesture. Eric laughed, and Bill said "Sookie!" in shocked admonishment. "I think that Sookie is telling us she belongs to herself," Eric said softly.”
“This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies”
“When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Mar 17, 2014
“A lot of artists were members of the artistic union. It gave you the possibility to buy paints, canvases, brushes, even the possibility to get a studio if you had the money to build it. It also gave you the possibility to make your living by making official art and then you would get a lot of "official" commissions: portraits, paintings, murals, etc.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.
“I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.”

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