When I cannot s…
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
~ Virginia Woolf
Am very ashamed…
Am very ashamed not to have written. Was over-run by journalists, photographers and plain and fancy crazies. Was in the middle of writing a book and it is a little like being interrupted in fornication.
~ Hemingway, Selected Letters
“I think one of…
“I think one of the first obstacles you have to get past is trying too hard: at sounding smart, at pretention, at making it high-brow. Say something exactly as it is first, and then describe something else. Keep Going.”
— Lia Cooper
“The heart lies…
“The heart lies to itself because it must.”
— Jack Gilbert
“Don’t bend; do…
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
— Franz Kafka