#l

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#command #editing #editor #even #first

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah. ↗

— Hugh Dancy

#i #i can #i think #lead #life

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ↗

— Sam Abell

#arts #desire #humans #moment #perfected

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#writing-craft #business

My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it. ↗

— Sam Abell

#ahead #almost #best #best work #occurs

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#back #every #every time #gigs #hear

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#constantly #epic #epic poetry #form #general

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#art #conception #everybody #going

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#become #believe #conduct #difficult #habitual

The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#archaeological #artistic #down #epic #extraordinary