Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
Inspiration strikes at very funny times.
Le Corbusier is an outstanding writer. His ideas achieved their impact in large measure because he could write so convincingly. His style is utterly clear, brusque, funny and polemical in the best way.
He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.