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Never Read Bad Stuff If You're An Artist; It Will Impair Your Own Game. I Don't Know If You Ever Played Competitive Tennis, But You Learn Not To Watch Bad Tennis; It Messes Up Your Game. Art's The Same Way.

The Story Of Ulysses And Agamemnon And Menelaus, Of Jesus, Of The Good Knight Of Chaucer, Lives In Every One Of Us.

Writing Is Like Being In Love. You Never Get Better At It Or Learn More About It. The Day You Think You Do Is The Day You Lose It. Robert Frost Called His Work A Lover's Quarrel With The World. It's Ongoing. It Has Neither A Beginning Nor An End. You Don't Have To Worry About Learning Things. The Fire Of One's Art Burns All The Impurities From The Vessel That Contains It.

It Has Been My Experience That Most Human Stories Are Circular Rather Than Linear. Regardless Of The Path We Choose, We Somehow End Up Where We Commenced - In Part, I Suspect, Because The Child Who Lives In Us Goes Along For The Ride.

Never Read Bad Stuff If You're An Artist; It Will Impair Your Own Game.