There is an incredibly poignant piece in the Guardian on the top five regrets of the dying. It is so easy to get caught up in busy-ness and think: “I’ll be happy tomorrow, I’ll talk to my friend tomorrow, I’ll make time for myself tomorrow, I’ll start following my dream tomorrow.” No, no, no. Think… [Read more…]
March 2, 2012
Just do the things you love. Do what turns you on, say what you wish somebody else would say.
June 6, 2011
Perhaps my time at Q magazine is to blame for my obsession with lists. Four years of “100 Greatest Albums”, “20 Worst Rock Haircuts” and so forth turned my brain into a list-generating machine. I like lists, though. They reduce life to neatly quantifiable parts. Black and white. “To do” and “done”. The problem is… [Read more…]
January 26, 2011
A marvellous quote from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Life could become one long dim scramble just to get the things needed to keep alive. And the confusing point is this: All useful things have a price, and are bought only with money, as that is the way the world is run. You know… [Read more…]
January 16, 2011
One doesn’t expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give — Vincent Van Gogh
March 5, 2009
Posted by Cila Warncke Writing for a Living: a Joy or a Chore? the Guardian asks, and famous novelists answer. Literary navel-gazing amuses me because nobody gives a goddamn what writers think about writing, apart from other writers. And they only to scroll through the words to see whose neurosis most closely match their own.… [Read more…]
May 8, 2012
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