“Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.”
~ Drew Barrymore, b. 22 February 1975
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Chuck Palahniuk (b. Feb 21): “We must never, ever be boring.”
21 Feb
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Chuck Palahniuk, born 21 February 1962, is an American novelist who describes his work as ‘transgressional fiction’. He is best known as the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into a feature film.
Quotes on Life & Writing:
- All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
- It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.creation,
- You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.
- I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
- Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
- I write compulsively. I’ve got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can’t not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
- What I’m always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of camp fires and fireplaces – the ghost stories that engaged us.
- Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.
- You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
- I always thought I’d write when I retired – when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I’d do the writing thing.
- I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
- The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money — the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.
Anais Nin (b. Feb 21): “If you don’t cry out or sing, then don’t write.”
21 Feb
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”
~ Anais Nin, b. 21 February 1903
Ansel Adams (b. Feb 20): “A photograph can hold just as much as we put into it…”
20 Feb
“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.”
~ Ansel Adams, b. 20 February 1902
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Toni Morrison (b. Feb 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”
18 Feb
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
~ Toni Morrison, b. 18 February 1931
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Yoko Ono (b. Feb 18): “Everybody’s an artist.”
18 Feb
“Everybody’s an artist. Everybody’s God. It’s just that they’re inhibited.”
~ Yoko Ono, b. 18 February 1933
Michael Jordan (b. Feb 17): “The game is my wife…”
17 Feb
“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.”
~ Michael Jordan, b. 17 February 1963
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Billie Joe Armstrong (b. Feb 17): “Obnoxious got me where I am today.”
17 Feb
“I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.”
~ Billie Joe Armstrong, b. 17 February 1972
John McEnroe (b. Feb 16): “Let the racket do the talking.”
16 Feb
“I’ll let the racket do the talking.”
~ John McEnroe, b. 16 February 1959
Ice-T (b. Feb 16): “I think everybody wants to redeem themselves…”
16 Feb
“I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they’ve done something that might be considered negative. I don’t think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.”
~ Ice T, b. 16 February 1958
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