June 24, 2004
Quote of the Day
If money becomes more important than making good art for you, you will become a hack. But money attaches you on the audience or the reader. It forces deadlines out of you. It makes you focus. It forces you to edit, to rewrite, to start over. And above all, to make choices. When there's no money, then there's the deadly freedom that kills all artists. You should fear it, because it will make you indulgent and self-obsessed, and above all, boring. It will drive you to write that 1,200-page novel entirely from the point of view of an ant just about to get eaten. It will make you a performance artist. Who wants that?
Posted by Russell Whitaker at June 24, 2004 06:04 AM | TrackBackI'm pleased as punch to have been quoted! I'd like to recommend an article I wrote recently, that is fairly pro-gun nut (I don't own them, but I'm skeptical of people who want to take them away). It's about the arrest of William Krar. The media has portrayed this guy as a crazed domestic terrorist -- he was arrested with a cache of weapons and explosives. But they missed the real story -- how badly the FBI botched the investigation. It's in (really) Maxim, this July's issue. And it's by me!
I hope you don't mind random bragging from strangers, but judging from your site, you might like it.
Thanks and sorry to bother,
Bibeau
