Art Quote by Jill Telford

“As with most things, my approach to writing has been entirely ass-backwards. I first had to become everything but a writer -- exhaust all…

— Quentin R. Bufogle

“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.”

— Joseph Leo Koerner

“When you write, you are telling a story...to yourself. When you revise, you are telling a story to yourself...over and over again.”

— Kai Strand

“You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every…

— Suzy Kassem

“Creating life as I go and editing when needed in order to move forward. Always under construction to do and be better than yesterday.”

— Donal O'Callaghan

“Never get too attached to the first draft of anything – this includes writing, art, homes, love. You will revise and revise and revise.…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“Sometimes some moments arrive in life: You go forward and you lose; you go backwards and you win!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.”

— Alan McCluskey

“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known…

— David Bayles

“I have this theory that most artists never leave childhood, that you're endlessly trying to work out what happened. And leaving university and facing…

— Rachel Cusk

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“Build your life as if it were a work of art.”

— Ernest Boyer Jr