What did William Maxwell mean by: Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera. William Maxwell Author · USA Copy
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Maxwell, Darkness, Happiness, Light, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
+ Your reader is at least as bright as you are Author, September 6, 2023January 2, 2025, William Maxwell, Empowerment, Equality, Understanding, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Maxwell, Connection, Education, Enthusiasm, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
+ A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. Author, July 22, 2023January 2, 2025, William Maxwell, Inspiration, Reading, Writing, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Maxwell, Destiny, Lack, Powerlessness, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
It’s deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Maxwell, Creativity, Deprivation, Motivation, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope. Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Maxwell, Hopelessness, Patience, Sadness, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
The nail doesn’t choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet Author, January 15, 2024January 9, 2025, William Maxwell, Connection, Control, Fate, 0 William Maxwell Author · USA
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I wanted not to make photographs that would be art, but art that would be photography. Jean-Marc Bustamante
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
