Latest Armistead Maupin Quotes from Interviews

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• I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence is probably as close as I'll get to having spirituality. I do see patterns in my life sometimes, and I am thrilled by what I see. I don't think I'm going to have any further shot at it after death, and I don't think there's anybody upstairs orchestrating it for me, but I do think it happens. If there are miracles in my life, they are rooted in the fact of coincidence.

  Armistead Maupin

  Thinking, Miracle, Spirituality

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me, and I don't want to live with any piece of work that I don't believe in completely. I have to believe completely in what I'm doing. It has grown organically out of my own experience.

  Armistead Maupin

  Believe, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his friends sit around the campfire and listen to his ghost stories. It's been very much a part of my makeup.

  Armistead Maupin

  Kids, Makeup, Ghost

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the bullshit of our lives, and we make it into something that has a harmonious shape and sound.

  Armistead Maupin

  Writing, Thinking, Bullshit

  Source: www.avclub.com