Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be..

Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only ….

Fame and success put tremendous demands on people. It robs them of their necessary privacy and anonymity. That's hard for even healthy people to deal….

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others..

Nothing ever happened except God..

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were par….

I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information..

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it..

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselve….

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right..

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitu….

media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to….

Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that there was more than one person….

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works..

What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took….

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with.

I think art, the discipline of creating, really does require tremendous solitude. But the whole creative process can seal your life to such an extent….

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well a….

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved..

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes..

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you..