“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.”
Eric Maisel“Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.”
Eric Maisel“Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).”
Eric Maisel Ph.D.“Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.”
Eric Maisel Ph.D.“A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.”
Eric Maisel, A Writer's San Francisco: A Guided Journey for the Creative Soul“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“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.”
Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression“The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.”
Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression“The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.”
Eric Maisel, The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person's Path Through Depression“A writer sets up his own amazing experiment: his work of fiction.”
Eric Maisel Ph.D., What Would Your Character Do?: Personality Quizzes for Analyzing Your Characters