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“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”

Thinking Years Art Done Enough Use Artist Written Waste Years Ago Method Possession Had Enough Disgusted

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.”

Thinking Knows World Book Enough Age Universe Written Mankind Creation Nine Prophet Over It World History Cozy

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.”

Years Book Enough Able Lasts Left Language Mistake Written Painful Conclusion Last Year Enough Time Gloomy Tuesday My Birthday Realisation Time Left

Author:Daniel Finkelstein

“For example, the character of Claire in In Dreams wasn't imagined enough by me. Annette Bening is a great actress, and she gave a great performance, but because I hadn't fully written it essentially the character wasn't finished.”

Enough Character Dream Written Example Performances Finished Actresses Claire Great Performance

Author:Neil Jordan

“But to write - that is grief and labor; and to read what one has written - how unlike the story as one saw it; how dull, how spirtless - that is enough to send one weeping to bed.”

Writing Enough Stories Grief Saws Written Bed Labor Dull Weeping

Author:Winifred Holtby

“In a way I do hate the process of writing. It's like learning a role where you never think you're going to be able to conquer it when you start and it just takes enough focus and narrowing and getting enthusiastic and not losing it and so on. It's never good enough, but you aim for something and you hope it comes somewhat close. But it is a pleasure once you have written it.”

Thinking Way Writing Enough Able Hate Process Pleasure Roles Focus Written Losing Aim Conquer Good Enough Enthusiastic Never Good Enough

Author:Julie Andrews

“I try not to think too much about an audience when Im writing the first draft of a book - at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what Ive written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.”

Thinking Writing Trying Firsts Book Enough Would Be Reading Audience Fire Too Much Written Stage Setting Settings Scare Laptops

Author:Robin Wasserman

“I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.”

Years Book Enough Able Written Bed Wicked Childrens Book

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something.”

Ifs Book Self Hard Enough Written Son All Things Doctors Add Notes Patient Exes Harvard Note To Self Self Being

Author:Mark Vonnegut

“A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.”

Enough Stories Memories Written Regret Prison Tales Landscape

Author:Brunonia Barry

“... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.”

States Enough Christian Church Religious Forever Written Changed Separation Doctrine Church And State Homophobia Separation Between Church And State

Author:Michelangelo Signorile

“Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Book Enough Stories Reading Wish My Own Interesting Fiction Written Determined Fantastic Impressed Hostile Ingenious Allegory Reviewers

Book:Reflections on the Psalms

Source: Reflections on the Psalms

“I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.”

Writing Enough Play Facts Stories Film Enjoy Written Absurdity

Author:Israel Horovitz

“All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can’t thank them enough. I’m just honored that 'God Only Knows' was chosen. 'God Only Knows' is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I’ve ever written.”

Knows I Can Enough Jobs Beautiful Spiritual Artist Song Written Special Chosen Honored

Author:Brian Wilson

“When I was 16, I took the written driving test, just like everybody else did, and I passed it. Then the first time I was behind the wheel of a car, when I was a kid, it kind of freaked me out. I've always been a very anxious student of anything, and so not being able to process things quickly enough, feeling overwhelmed, I just got freaked out and so I just never tried again.”

Firsts Kind Enough Feelings Kids Able Process Behinds Written Car Students First Time Tests Driving Wheels Anxious Overwhelmed Feeling Overwhelmed

Author:Paul F. Tompkins

“I value my correspondence with writers...I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him - he is someone I really like. I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That's enough for me.”

Enough Values Written New York Notes Staying Lunch Correspondence

Author:Alan Lightman

“Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much. Let the reader bring his own sexuality into the text. A writer I usually admire has written about sex in the most off-putting way. There is just too much information.”

Way Writing Enough Sex Difficult Too Much Written Information Reader Sexy Sexuality Admire Too Much Information

Author:Toni Morrison

“There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors.”

Enough Realizing Written

Author:Miguel de Icaza

“My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.”

Enough Parent Support Written Groups Taught Judging Internet Down And Good Enough Comment So Sad Bloggers Support Groups

Author:Carmen Rasmusen

“Sci-fi uses the images that sf - starting with H.G. Wells - made familiar: space travel, aliens, galactic wars and federations, time machines, et cetera, taking them literally, not caring if they are possible or even plausible. It has no interest in or relation to real science or technology. It's fantasy in space suits. Spectacle. Wizards with lasers. Kids with ray guns. I've written both, but I have to say I respect science fiction enough that I wince when people call it sci-fi.”

“It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.”

Made Said Enough Past Joy Too Much Written Comfort Worn

Author:Tavi Gevinson

“And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.”

People Writing Enough Reality Actors Bits Interesting Creative Written Car Industry Directors Producers Artistic Parks Stagnation Creative Art Car Parks

Author:Josh Lawson

“As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job, but not intelligent enough to make their own terms with society." Those "intelligent enough" to make their own terms with society are what we will later refer to as artists of life. The outsider views himself as a product of a culture he rejects-the artist views himself as a culture-builder.”

People Enough Jobs Artist Culture Term Views Written Modern Products Intelligent Rejects Outsiders Civilisation Builder Wilson Rigidity Repetitive

Book:Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

Source: Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design

“Well, Peter Rowan and I had plans to form a band when he left Bill Monroe. I always thought it was going to be a bluegrass band, but I guess when Peter left Bill Monroe he had had enough of bluegrass. He had written some songs and of course the Beatles were a big influence back then. So, we decided to something different and it ended up being that.”

Wells Different Enough Bigs Form Song Courses Left Plans Written Influence Band Decided Bills Peter Had Enough Bluegrass

Author:David Grisman

“At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.”

Ifs Ideas Enough Stories Used Found Imagination Forget Written Notion Good Enough One Time My Imagination Forget It Notebook Outlines

Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

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