Quote by Haruki Murakami

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

— Kate Zambreno

False notes [on the piano] are human. Why does everything have to be perfect? You know, perfection itself is imperfection.

— Vladimir Horowitz

“We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote: "I go into the museum and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't think any of the early Romantic composers knew how to write for the piano... The music of that era is full of…

— Glenn Gould

“Not every artist can make a masterpiece, yet it’s the experiments that quietly stumble forward that lead to them. There’s an altogether more generous…

— Dan Fox

If you force yourself to write away from the piano, you come up with more inventive things. If you're too good a piano player,…

— Stephen Sondheim

Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this…

— Keith Johnstone

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

To be able to produce many varieties of sound, now that is what I call technique, and that is what I try to do.…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art,…

— Ellen Glasgow