"The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral."

-- Garth Stein

#Art Quotes #Book Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.”
“Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment”

Source : Matilda Joslyn Gage (1980). “Woman, Church, and State: The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex”
“Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.”
“The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.”
“If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.”

Source : "The Listening Composer". Book by George Perle, p. 98, 1990.
“If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.”
“if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow”
“I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.”

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