December 2009
29 posts
“Memory is like fiction; or else it’s fiction that’s like memory. This really...”
– Haruki Murakami (via devilduck)
Vanishing Act →
The final days of Spalding Gray.
“When I write I look at what’s lying on the floor of my life.”
– Peter Carey
life is so ridiculously gorgeous, strange,... →
“When people ask me whether I went to film school I answer ‘No, I went to films’”
– Quentin Tarantino (via itsmejanessa)(via synecdoche)
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;...”
– my dad sent this today and I thought it was nice (via lookmom)
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance. The only difference being that a writer can do it all alone.
- Joan Didion
[A] woman writer has a double dose of masochism: the masochism of the woman and that of the artist. No way to dodge it or escape from it. Men are better at escaping their psyches and their consciences. But there is a certain dogged strength in realizing that you can make those delirious journeys and come through.
Edna O’Brien
“There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a...”
– Walter “Red” Smith (via measart)
Snow
The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was Spawning snow and pink roses against it Soundlessly collateral and incompatible: World is suddener than we fancy it. World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various. And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world Is more...
“A writer’s personality is his manner of being in the world: his writing style is...”
– Zadie Smith
Mills, I had been saving this in my drafts for a special occasion. THE ART VS. THE ARTIST II: THE ARTENING, I believe, is it.
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