Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.
Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.
There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
