We have to stop acquiescing even to the wording that the liberals use.
An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.
Other niggas' situations, they are all depressing.
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.