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