Mikutavicius Koncertas Quotes & Sayings

Art and writing come from somewhere down around the lizard brain. It's a much more peculiar activity than we like to think it is. The problems arise when we try to domesticate the practice, to pretend that it's a normal human activity and that "everybody's creative." They're not. — Dave Hickey

Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you. — Donna Tartt

There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people. — Benjamin Booker

A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter tears will be only tears of tender sorrow that purifies the heart and delivers it from sin. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death. That's what attracts us to the man who paints the flagstaff on the tall building, or to the 'human fly' who scales the walls of the same building. — Harry Houdini