Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.
I get and read an enormous number of first novels.
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves. We need them to tell us. We need them to say, "I know you, Al. You are not the kind of man who.
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Have you ever noticed that when people use the expression 'I have to say', what follows usually needn't be said?
People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.
Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.
Advice,' Doña Vorchenza chuckled. 'Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at seventy and you're a sage.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.