"Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves."

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Judith Guest

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“I don't think my work is so strange. It's just a matter of having the discipline to go the whole way with an idea, to stretch it as far as it can go.”
“Art comes from art: I remember going to the Matisse show and seeing how Matisse had taken one of his own paintings, worked from it and transformed it, and that had led on to the next one and the next.”
“The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”

Source : Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book
“The deepest level of truth uncovered by science, & by philosophy, is the fundamental truth of unity. At that deepest subnuclear level of our reality, you & i are literally one.”
“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.”
“An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.100, University of Chicago Press
“I am more afraid of doing what is wrong than of dying.”

Source : Philip Doddridge (1831). “The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge, D. D.: Illustrative of Various Particulars in His Life Hitherto Unknown; with Notices of Many of His Contemporaries; and a Sketch of the Ecclesiastical History of the Times in which He Lived”, p.233
“Everything seemed to change on that one day, but really, I think, things had been changing and changing over the course of many previous days, and perhaps what eventually appears to be information always appears at first to be just flotsam, meaningless fragments, until enough flotsam accretes to manifest, when one notices it, a construction.”

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