Quote of the Week
Quote of the Week: Jeanette Winterson
Quote of the Week: Martine Leavitt
This isn’t a quote, it’s an entire speech. This is the commencement address from my graduation at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. It’s given by the brilliant and articulate, Martine Leavitt, and it captures the dedication, heart, and love it takes to write. A large portion of the address relates to going to VCFA in particular,…
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Quote of the Week: Art & Fear
The above quote comes from the book Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland. Special thanks to Laura Cook who shared this on Facebook.
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Quote of the Week: Jeanette Winterson
“The healing power of art is not a rhetorical fantasy. Fighting to keep language, language became my sanity and my strength. It still is, and I know of no pain that art cannot assuage. For some, music, for some, pictures, for me, primarily, poetry, whether found in poems or in prose, cuts through the noise…
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Quote of the Week: Dorothy Allison
“I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making…
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Quote of the Week: Eudora Welty
“If you haven’t surprised yourself, you haven’t written.” – Eudora Welty Eudora Welty is the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist of The Optimist’s Daughter. She has won numerous other awards including the National Book Award, a National Medal for the Arts, and the O. Henry Award. She has written six novels and numerous short story collections.
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Quote of the Week: Robert Olen Butler
“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that’s the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”…