I’m off at VCCA, writing like a maniac—I hope! I may post about what’s going on there, and I may not. In case of the latter, I’m leaving behind some of my favorite “inspirational” quotations that I hand-copied into a notebook, using my very neatest handwriting, while I was in high school, and spilling into the early years of college.
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.”
~J.D. Salinger
Franny and Zooey
Zooey
“The willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions is what distinguishes artists from entertainers.”
~John Updike
On J.D. Salinger’s Seymour