C.M. Rivers

"The point of being an artist is that you may live." ~ Sherwood Anderson


Quotes

  • Jack Kerouac Quote

    “I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word, and the only word I had was ‘wow’.   -On The Road Continue reading

  • Robert Frost Quote

    “I suppose I’m just a bit lazy, so I’ve had a lazy, scrape-along life, and enjoyed it.  I fight everything academic.  The time we waste in trying to learn academically – the talent we starve with academic teaching!”    -Robert Frost Continue reading

  • Henry Miller (from Tropic of Cancer)

    “I was permitted to hear an incredible music…I heard the gestation of the new world…the sound of stars grinding and chafing, of fountains clotted with blazing gems….Music is planetary fire, an irreducible which is all sufficient; it is the slate-writing of the gods.” -Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer   Continue reading

  • “The amuse-bouche is the best way for a great chef to express his big ideas in small bites.”           -Jean-Georges Vongerichten Continue reading

  • “I’ve always just wanted to earn my living by writing.  The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.”  -Robert Harris Continue reading

  • “It often took me a full morning to write a paragraph.”  –Ernest Hemingway Continue reading