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Alice Weaver Flaherty

"Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to."

Source : Alice Weaver Flaherty (2015). “The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Alice Weaver Flaherty

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“It's not an issue. Everyone's focused on us trying to get a victory. That's where the focus lies. ... We're trying to win a game. Who cares about that (other stuff). If we'd played 'em two years ago when it happened, maybe it would be different.”
“Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.
“I never wanted to be commissioned to paint portraits. I like to choose my own subject and make a character study from it.”
“Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.”
“Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.”
“I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.”
“I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.”
“I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.”

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