Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk
I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it. ' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of your loved ones. It has to be more important than any possession, more important than fame. We hear about just a few writers who get famous, but most of them don't. It's got to mean more than that.
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.
I never want to be told, "Hey, this is what you do best, and this is the only thing you're going to do. " And there are other people that are put into that box. Or unable to navigate through all the different genres. Some people insist on being a tough guy even though it's not happening. People only want to see them in leading romantic roles. Yet they continue to try and force something that doesn't feel organic to people.
Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
I got the experience, I got the strength, I got the talent, I got the famous jump hook. That's my move.