“The art of...:
“Write drunk, edit sober.” — Ernest Hemingway
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.” — Gustave Flaubert
“In utter loneliness, a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.” - John Steinbeck
“Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else’s. That’s mostly why I write. I’m not trying to change anybody else’s life or the world; I’m trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That’s the real point.” — Guy Clark
“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?” ~Kurt Vonnegut fr. Man Without a Country pg 9
I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. – Hermen Hesse
“I’ve never enjoyed myself. I’m incapable of enjoying myself. There’s just some people who don’t enjoy themselves very much.” — Harry Crews
“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable way of life for those who cannot translate their psychic wounds into significant art or thought.” — Theodore Roszak, In Search of the Miraculous
“Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it’d find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it.” — David Foster Wallace
