I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is…

She is well practiced in the art of losing herself.

— Veronica Roth

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows…

— Barbara Kingsolver

In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a…

— Ruth Whitman

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Sex was a practiced art to him. Each move calculated. His brain always worked while he performed, his body seducing his prey with ease,…

— Christine Feehan

When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might…

— Claude Monet

When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

— Colleen McCullough

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

— Dennis Brown

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws