Irving Stone
Irving Stone
Irving Stonewas an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians and intellectuals; among the best known are Lust for Life, about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, about Michelangelo...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth14 July 1903
CountryUnited States of America
alphabet
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
flames waiting soul
Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?
poison antidote
Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.
drawing lines stories
Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.
abandon
God did not create us to abandon us.
weed block writing
When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.
love-life bread
Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
strength men horny
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
less meaning somewhat universal
My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.
creative endless imagination impossible inside man
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.