The Myth of the Writer’s Life
The problem with looking for artistic validation in unhappiness, though, is that only the unhappiness is guaranteed; the art is still up to you.
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Quote of the Day – Bruce Springsteen
February 8, 2012
You can find your identity in the damage that’s been done to you. Very, very dangerous. You find your identity in your wounds, in your scars, in the places where you’ve been beat up and you turn them into a medal. We all wear the things we’ve survived with some honour, but the real honour… [Read more…]
Patti Smith – Woolgathering
January 29, 2012
She is the… greatest. The inimitable Patti Smith has been busy of late and has new books out: Woolgathering and The Coral Sea. This fantastic quote introduces an earlier poetry collection, Witt: These ravings, observations, etc come from one who, beyond vows, is without mother, gender, or country who attempts to bleed from the word… [Read more…]
Kurt Vonnegut on Creativity
January 10, 2012
The quote below is an excerpt from A Man Without A Country — a diamond of a book by the inimitable Kurt Vonnegut. To be as wise, incensed and articulate as Vonnegut is here (age 83) is surely one definition of success. If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don’t have the… [Read more…]
Writer’s Letters – F. Scott Fitzgerald
May 17, 2011
Reading writer’s letters is one of my great pleasures. It is like finally getting to hang out with the cool kid you heretofore only watched enviously across the playground and discovering he is even cooler than you imagined. I’m working my way through F. Scott Fitzgerald’s A Life In Letters, a collection of witty, desperate,… [Read more…]
Quote of the Day – Javier Marias + William Faulkner
May 14, 2011
No escribo para encontrar respuestas, ni creo en las novelas que lo hacen. Faulkner decia que la literatura logra lo mismo que una pobre cerilla que se enciende en mitad de la noche, en mitad de un campo. No sirve para iluminar nada, solamente para ver cuanta oscuridad hay a nuestro alredador y lo poco… [Read more…]
Quote of the Day – Robert Penn Warren
April 24, 2011
It was one of Hunter S Thompson’s favourites so, after buying and carting it from Glasgow, I finally got around to sinking into All The King’s Men. According to the New York Times blurb on the back it is: “The definitive novel about American politics.” Which is on par with saying Macbeth is the definitive… [Read more…]
Quote of the Day – Truman Capote
March 13, 2011
Intellectually, I am a hitchhiker who gathers his education along highways and under bridges. - Truman Capote ‘Answered Prayers’
Quote of the Day – Muriel Spark
March 12, 2011
Oh, the trifles, the people, that get on your nerves when you have a neurosis! -Muriel Spark
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