A Quote by Mary Gaitskill

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

Mary Gaitskill

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Express Focus Inner Intense Need Outward Physically Requires Socially Sometimes Writing

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Mary Gaitskill
American - Novelist
Born: November 11, 1954

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The need to express one's self in writing springs from a maladjustment of life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action.

Andre Maurois

Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

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Andre Maurois

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Douglas Coupland

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Gary Zukav

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Brady Anderson

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Steve Pavlina

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Norman Doidge

I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

Sarah Lacy

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Peter Drucker

Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

Lianne La Havas

With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.