Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986)
A writer-and, I belive,
generally all persons must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely.
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our embrassments, all given to us:
as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art- JLB writer