Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Lester Bangs
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.
Mireille Guiliano
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell