Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

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Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

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Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).

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Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.

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A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

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Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us.

Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression
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If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

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The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

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The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

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A writer sets up his own amazing experiment: his work of fiction.

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