Claire Messud I feel as though there are things that I’m trying to do – you know, capturing truthfully some aspect of human experience – and I’m trying really hard not to be fake. And in writing, as in life, it’s harder than you think. – Claire Messud Aspect Quotes Capturing Quotes Experience Quotes Fake Quotes Feel Quotes Hard Quotes Harder Quotes Human Quotes Life Quotes Truthfully Quotes Writing Quotes My tendencies are much more the Henry James thing, where we sit in silence at the table for three minutes, and our whole lives are changed because of a revelation that never quite happens but almost bubbles to the surface. There is that time right around 30 when you think, your twenties have gone by, and now you really are a grown up, and you do have to figure out what you’re going to do.
Jessie J It’s weird because when you initially write a song, you write it with no understanding that the world is maybe going to hear it one day. So when you go into the studio, you don’t see the hundreds of people at a gig or the viewers on TV, you just write a song without any inhibitions or boundaries. – Jessie J
Jimmy Scott If you’re singing, you’re telling a story. So to tell it and tell it right, that’s it. – Jimmy Scott
Havelock Ellis The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis
Michael Kiwanuka I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can’t really buy the feeling of connecting with people. – Michael Kiwanuka
Nancy Gibbs Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there’s no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do. – Nancy Gibbs
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