The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.
It's always tricky, meeting an author you've admired.
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.