"Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ..."

-- Gail Caldwell

#Crazy Quotes #Grief Quotes #Noble Quotes

“Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.61, Cambridge University Press
“When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar, you start reverting back to that state of mind where you're having conversations with yourself, and that's where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.”
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.549, St. Martin's Press
“I'm definitely drawn to things that are new, so something specifically for me would have been fun.”

Source : Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. June 23, 2016.
“Every generation has their own great players. Who's to say that anyone's better than Cheryl Miller or Nancy Lieberman? Whose anyone to say Michael Jordan is better than Oscar Robertson or Magic Johnson or Larry Bird? Every generation has its great player. There's never going to be one player that's so above and beyond anyone else.”
“We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.”
“I didn't go to bars much. One drunken ***** was all I could handle and that was me. I wrote. I don't remember a lot of it.”

You may also like:

Andre Dubus
Novelist
Caroline Knapp
Writer
Dani Shapiro
Author
Darin Strauss
Writer
Julia Glass
Novelist
Kelly Corrigan
Writer
Mary Karr
Poet
Michelle Huneven
Novelist
Tiffanie DeBartolo
Novelist