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“I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.”
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Virginia Woolf
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The Waves
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Elizabeth Hand
(1957) American writer
Strange Horizons interview (2004)
Context: I don't think all artists are mad, but there is statistical medical evidence that a lot of creative people suffer from various mood disorders. They fall somewhere on the spectrum of being bipolar, of being borderline autistic and so on. These things are there. Now of course these days you can go to college and when you come out you are a professional artist and you can run a gallery as a business and have a career. That is a very valid way for an artist to make a living. But it doesn't make for a very interesting story. It doesn't have a lot of mythic subtext. … For me a lot of the world really is like that. The scenes in my book that people describe as "such a hallucinatory sequence" … I don't see the world like that all the time, but I see the world like that a lot.
So what am I going to do about that? Am I going to go crazy? Am I going to institutionalize myself? Am I going to go and work in a cubicle as a telemarketer so that I don't give vent to that? Or am I going to take that and channel it into my work? It is a gift.
Rosa Luxemburg
(1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Prison Letter, (May 12, 1917), Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Michelangelo Antonioni
(1912–2007) Italian film director and screenwriter
Encountering Directors interview (1969)
