“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
Source: Woody Allen on Woody Allen
“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
that was my objective. I knew the [reader] was never happy all the time. You take the Thing, he’d knock out 50 guys at a time and win — then maybe he’d sit down and kind of reflect on it: “Maybe I hurt somebody or maybe we could have done it some other way” like a human being would think, not like a monster. In other books the guy would knock out the gangs and that would be the end of it. You would see the guys in jail, and that’s it. Or it would say, “Wait until next week.”
Source: 1990, Gary Groth interview
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
“Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
“Everyone has talent. The question is how do we find it, and how do we nurture it?”
Vincennes University (December 2019)
