“It’s impossible to learn to plow by reading books” – “Old Russian Proverb” via Richard Linklater, It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books

“Give me the same thing… only different!” – Blake Snyder, Save The Cat!

“Computers are useless — all they can give you are answers” – Pablo Picasso (Quoted in Art & Fear)

“The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it to language” – Stanley Kunitz (Quoted in Art &… Read More »Perfection of Poetry

“Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.” – Stephen DeStaebler (Quoted in Art… Read More »Artistic Motivation

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.” –… Read More »The Challenge of Writing

“Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.” – Hippocrates (Quoted in Art & Fear)

“My task … is to make you hear, to make you feel– and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is… Read More »Artistic Sensory Task

“Basil [the artist], my dear boy, puts everything that is charming into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but… Read More »Artists in Life and Work

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.… Read More »Poetry and Theft