„An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’tknow why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonderwhy. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, orsteal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.“

— William Faulkner

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„An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.“
— William Faulkner
„The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.“
— William Golding
„Keep a demon busy, I thought. Right. Maybe he fancies a game of Tiddlywinks.“
— Rick Riordan
„There are various reasons why an individual might habitually consume large quantities of alcohol, but they all effectively boil down to the same thing. Five years ago, my business partner was a happy drunk. Three years later, he had become a moody drunk. And by the last summer, he was fumbling at the knob of the door to alcoholism. As with most habitual drinkers, he was nice-enough, regular-if-not-exactly-sharp kind of guy. He thought so too. That's why he drank. Because it seemed that with alcohol in his syste, he could more fully embody this idea of being that kind of guy.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.“
— Anaïs Nin
„People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.“
— Terry Pratchett