My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.
Malcolm GladwellThere are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
Malcolm GladwellA book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.
Malcolm Gladwell