“Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.”
Source: The Bridges of Madison County
“The challenge is to write about real things magically.”
Source: Selected Letters
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Judith Krug
(1940–2009) librarian and freedom of speech proponent
Referring to people seeking to prevent children in public schools from reading books allegedly containing sexually inappropriate material.
" Group Targets Black Authors' Books; Toni Morrison's Novel Deemed 'Smut' by Parent; Acclaimed Memoir 'Black Boy' Also is Under Fire http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070124/METRO04/701240390/1037/ENT05" by Valerie Olander, The Detroit News (January 24, 2007)
“The hardest thing about writing is writing.”
Nora Ephron
(1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter
Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Edie Sedgwick
(1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
Context: But I really, since I exist, at all, I believe that it's possible for people... I've lived through impossible situations. So I believe in it. I just believe, and that's the magic... That's the whole thing, you talk about magic that there's to believe in, and it is there. But most people don't really believe in it. And I refuse, like, since I'm still alive and done the things I've done and seen things and understood things as far as I have, and I am alive, I mean physically intact. When I shouldn't be, according to medical reports and so forth. I mean I should be, not here. That's all there is to it. So the magic's working and it's a rare situation.
David Blaine
(1973) American illusionist and endurance artist
Interview with Brett Martin for Time Out New York (April 1-8, 1999, on-line). http://www.hwwilson.com/_home/bios/1997004856.htm
Bryan Magee
(1930–2019) British politician
Source: Confessions of a Philosopher (1997), p. 232
Context: The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges from the preconsciousness of babyhood and simply finds himself here, in it, in the world. That experience alone astonishes some people. What is all this — what is the world? And what are we? From the beginning of humanity some have been under a compulsion to ask these questions, and have felt a craving for the answers. This is what is really meant by any such phrase as "mankind's need for metaphysics."