Will Gluck
Will Gluck
Will Gluck is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter, songwriter, and composer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
appeal continue hear invariably poor refuse saying send student time urgent wants whether work worthwhile
Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.
mere nine sings study ten
One does not study for a goal. One sings because one can't help it! The 'goal' nine times out of ten is a mere accident.
appetite cultural laureate seems
We have a disturbing cultural appetite for novelty, and it seems to me wrong each new laureate should dislodge the ideas of his or her predecessor, especially when they're still unfolding.
artist defensive erase future knowledge toward
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
I don't live with earplugs. I don't like the spotlight - but I like overhearing conversations.
best full means poem range seemed subtleties suited surprising
What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.
good seems
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
self mind answers
17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.
wall taken thinking
So you couldn't protect yourself? The absolute erodes; the boundary, the wall around the self erodes. If I was waiting I had been invaded by time. But do you think you're free? I think I recognize the patterns of my nature. Bud do you think you're free? I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
dream soul speak
The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams.
form
The love of form is a love of endings.
loss birth hard
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
doors suffering ends
At the end of my suffering/there was a door.
winter should-have despair
You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you.