"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."

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"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."

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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Art, Beauty, Creation, Inspiration, Aesthetic

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Poetry, Humor, Accuracy, Creativity

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Art, Storytelling, Life, Reality, Truth

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Art, Inspirational, Power, Truth, Wisdom

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Art, Poetry, Expression, Creativity, Life

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Art, Storytelling, Magic, Emotion, Heart

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Art, Poetry, Time, Music, Writing

"Music gives life to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Life, Soul, Energy

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Art, Writing, Life, Presence, Creativity

"Music gives strength to the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Strength, Soul, Power

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

Reading, Reason, Talk, Worth

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

Fun, Funny, People

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

Man, Old, Writer, Writing

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

Love, People, Minority, Now

"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."

Literature, Light, Living

"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."

Art, First, Folk

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

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"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

"Music gives life to the soul."

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

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"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible."

"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

"I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling."

"Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer."

"I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love."