Andrew McAleer quotes

“Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.”
-- Andrew McAleer

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“Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.”
-- Andrew McAleer

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“There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.”
-- Andrew McAleer

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“Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.”
-- Andrew McAleer

Source : Andrew McAleer (2008). “101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists: Insider Secrets from Top Writers”, p.66, Adams Media

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“Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”

“Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown, A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none, Nor seen unveil'd by anyone), When Harvey's violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree: There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!”

“Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.”

“As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.”

“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”

“As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”

“I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure.”

“There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.”

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”