I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and…

My desktop is really chaotic, and I'm always trying to work out where I am going to put all these ideas.

— Julia Davis

I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and…

— Dan Chaon

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or…

— Stephen Greenblatt

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

— Soni Razdan

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

— Brenda Ueland

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

— Stephen Greenblatt

We are searching for the same thing,” Stripey said. “How do you know?” Janco asked. “I read his mind.” The Sitian pointed to Ari.…

— Maria V. Snyder

“Observe ... for there's always a pattern even to the seemingly most chaotic matter of all”

— A.M.M Alusi

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really…

— Brian Ferneyhough

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would…

— Anthony Storr

A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is…

— Le Ly Hayslip

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the…

— Yehuda Berg

Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance.

— Frederick Lenz

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are…

— Timothy Leary