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“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“I'd like to understand why it seems normal to look at astonishing achievements made by unapproachably ambitious, luminously pious, strangely obsessed artists, and toss them off with a few wry comments.”

Looks Made Seems Artist Normal Achievement Critics Obsessed Comment Ambitious Astonishing Pious Toss Wry

Book:Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings

Source: Pictures and Tears: A History of People Who Have Cried in Front of Paintings