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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. — Michael Cunningham

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner

Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. — Matthew Collings

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. — Peter Schjeldahl

That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself. — Frank McCourt

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time. — Claire Danes

We are artists. When we can't find the beauty, we create it. — A.D. Posey

To get over artist's block, make shitty art. — Dave Horowitz

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first. — Blaise Pascal

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave. — Kristin Scott Thomas

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive. — Wayne Coyne

It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity. — Chloe Thurlow

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. — Jyrki Vainonen

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. — Jim Morrison

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity. — Eric Kandel

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad. — Harry Harrison

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult. — Anthony Browne

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town. — Steven Curtis Chapman

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced — Agatha Christie

There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. — Jonathan Lethem

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders. — Ellen Forney

When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer? — Martijn Benders

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America. — M. Ward

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads. — Christopher Bollen

Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words. — Barbara Case Speers

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. — Aberjhani

Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You don't make art out of good intentions. — Gustave Flaubert

KEEP BOOKS DANGEROUS
Support small press
publishers, writers,
& artists. — Hosho McCreesh

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. — Arthur Holitscher

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — E.A. Bucchianeri

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical. — Edna Longley

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists. — Eva Zeisel

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world. — Ariel Gore

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. — Craig Raine

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family. — Jim Steranko

The greatest artists see what is invisible to the masses. — A.D. Posey

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer. — Len Wein

Every artist takes their final work to the grave. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists. — Larry Kramer

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed. — Gustave Flaubert

Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out. — Audre Lorde

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art. — Stephanie Lennox

If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out. — Allan Savory

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. — Morgan Freeman

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form. — Robert McKee

And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much. — Charles Bukowski

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. — Julia Cameron

The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work. — Mark W. Boyer

The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders. — Steven Pressfield

Bedtime is daytime,
and we come into bloom
after midnight. — Lenore Kandel

I made her promise to write, but artists are artists, not writers. She did send postcards, though: a lot of postcards - sometimes — Anita Diamant

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. — Gustave Flaubert

Artists, writers, creatives succumb either to vanity of disappointment. — Chloe Thurlow

Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe. — Robert Black