Creation
Passion may grip us by the throat momentarily; upon our backs we may feel the lashes of desire and bathe our souls in flames of many hues; but the joy of activity is the ultimate passion."
George Sylvester Viereck • The House of the Vampire
All genuine art is autobiography.
George Sylvester Viereck • The House of the Vampire
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.
Brandon Sanderson • The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1)
Given two works of artistic majesty, otherwise weighted equally, we will give greater acclaim to the one who did it first. It doesn’t matter what you create. It matters what you create before anyone else. “So it’s not the beauty itself we admire. It’s not the force of intellect. It’s not invention, aesthetics, or capacity itself. The greatest talen
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