Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. - Steve Almond
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.
- Steve Almond
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. - Steve Almond
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how t… - Steve Almond
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how t…
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the n… - Steve Almond
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the n…
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers - Steve Almond
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period. - Steve Almond
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion. - Steve Almond
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. - Steve Almond
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what t… - Steve Almond
Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what t…
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