163 Quotes by Irving Stone

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    The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

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    The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

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    There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

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    How can a young person learn whether he chose the correct way? He thinks he has a special idea, and then he discovers that he is completely inappropriate for it.

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    Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...

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    The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

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    ... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

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    Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.

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