When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite … - Patti Smith

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

Patti Smith

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

Burroughs, Desire, Secret, Write, Writing, Young

Same Author Quotes

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

Become, Life, Shed, Skins

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

Artist, Sometimes, Poet, Place, Poets, Destroy

My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

Exercise, Mission, Mother, Responsibility, Voice, Wake

I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

Café, Ideas, Losing, Phones, Think, Thinking

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

Adventure, Design, Fate, Life, Series, Unlucky