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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about... 
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the arti... 
I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal... 
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. 
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little ... 
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable m... 
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. 
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. 
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is les... 
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from w... 
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty... 
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. 
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. 
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. 
Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. 
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his power... 
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like h... 
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxi... 
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative fo... 
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any ph... 
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth befor... 
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. 
Trump's characterization of undocumented immigrants is, of course, absurd. Not only do the facts... 
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what... 
Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I... 
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in hi... 
Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artis... 
You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. 
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the empe... 
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or... 
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi... 
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi... 
I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along wi... 
Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will te... 
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyo... 
In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painte... 
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. 
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. 
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If h... 
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. 
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral gro... 
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the poi... 
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly ... 
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly ... 
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of h... 
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats th... 
He who works with his hands is a laborer.
A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. 
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The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his o... 
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the h... 
to discover the deep sources of his character and motivation; what makes him exceptional as well as ... 
I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you p... 
You know what I loved about 'Sideways'? Well, the wine, of course. But it was one of the few... 
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