What did Jane Alison mean by: I think sometimes to still be angry is appropriate, but you want to be able to live with it. - Jane Alison Novelist Copy
+ In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Alison, Romance, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ When you’re waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Alison, Cigarette, Waiting, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ I wouldn’t underestimate the power of writing a letter. Feraz Zeid, September 13, 2023December 24, 2023, Jane Alison, Letters, Underestimate, Writing, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ You have to want something or you’re finished. Feraz Zeid, October 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Jane Alison, Finishing, Want Something, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ That’s what perfect means. You’re finished. Feraz Zeid, September 12, 2023December 26, 2023, Jane Alison, Finishing, Perfect, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ I know perfectly well that you can’t not want anything and live. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Alison, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Alison, Teaching, Writing, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
+ There’s a lot of water in everything I’ve ever written. There’s always oceans and pools. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Jane Alison, Ocean, Pool, Water, 0 - Jane Alison Novelist
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
