When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. View quotes by Denis Diderot
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling View quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. View quotes by John Barth
