Author Portraits | Helen Marcus: New York Freelance Photographer
"Some of my instincts are reprehensible."
William Buckley
1979
"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
Lewis Thomas 1979
"I really didn't choose to write. I more or less fell into it."
Anne Tyler 1977
"I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."
Toni Morrison
1978
"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair."
Alfred Kazin
1977
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
Norman Cousins
1980
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
Joseph Heller
1979
"Why do I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."
Tennessee Williams
1979
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
Tom Wolfe
1979
"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
Erica Jong
1981
"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
Jerzy Kosinski
1980
"The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated."
William Saroyan
1979
"Blaming Mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still."
Nancy Friday
1978
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension ."
Norman Mailer
1967
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
Germaine Greer
1979
"I was fretting too much over that opening sentence. I decided to just start writing... simple little words... 'There is a little town on a hill called Santa Vittoria.'"
Robert Crichton
1972
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life."
John Barth
1979
Helen Marcus: New York Freelance Photographer
Helen Marcus is a New York based photographer specializing in editorial, fine art, portraits and travel work.
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"Some of my instincts are reprehensible."
William Buckley
1979
"We are built to make mistakes, coded for error."
Lewis Thomas 1979
"I really didn't choose to write. I more or less fell into it."
Anne Tyler 1977
"I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it."
Toni Morrison
1978
"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair."
Alfred Kazin
1977
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."
Norman Cousins
1980
"Every writer I know has trouble writing."
Joseph Heller
1979
"Why do I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory."
Tennessee Williams
1979
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
Tom Wolfe
1979
"Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness."
Erica Jong
1981
"I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel."
Jerzy Kosinski
1980
"The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated."
William Saroyan
1979
"Blaming Mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still."
Nancy Friday
1978
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension ."
Norman Mailer
1967
"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever."
Germaine Greer
1979
"I was fretting too much over that opening sentence. I decided to just start writing... simple little words... 'There is a little town on a hill called Santa Vittoria.'"
Robert Crichton
1972
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life."
John Barth
1979