"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with
inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films,
music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random
conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds,
bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from
that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft)
will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is
non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it
if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard
said: 'It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them
to.'"
- Jim Jarmusch
Writing
a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some
painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not
driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
~George Orwell
One
must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right
ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
~Hart Crane
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. ~Samuel Johnson
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray Bradbury
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ~Gene Fowler
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri GuillemetsA synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. ~Baltasar Gracián
Being happy does not mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Love's symptoms are
familiar enough: a drifting moodiness in thought and behavior, the mad
conceit that the entire universe has rolled itself up into the person of
the beloved, a conviction that no one on earth has ever felt so
torrentially about a fellow creature before. Love is ecstasy and
torment, freedom and slavery. Poets and songwriters would be in a fine
mess without it. Plus, it makes the world go round. ~Times Magazine
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