"I never said I was an artist. I am an entertainer...I arrange words in pleasing patterns in order to make money. I try to give good value--to see that my patterns are well wrought--but I do not delude myself by inflating the nature of my function. I try to be neat, intelligent and lucid: let others be 'creative' or 'inspired.'"Simon Raven, Fielding Gray (1967)
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ADG (Maxminimus) has a new website. I knew he couldn't stay away for long. Such a little clown...
i am a published writer and poet several times now and i agree with this 100% i'll compose poems when i'm drunk that are good, and interesting, but only take 10 minutes to do well before i pass out. when i read them in a workshop or performance, people always impart them with waaaay more meaning than i ever gave them. i just do simple things well and if i do a job well, it will captivate someone's imagination, of their own accord, to the point where they forget about me entirely.
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