Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.
Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.