“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.” – Dylan Thomas
“When I’m not writing, I am reading….and I think, along with many other authors, that it makes me a better writer.” Me
“I went to brush something off my cheek and it was the floor.” Unknown.
“But it had to have been said by one of these famous drunks. Hemingway? Tennessee Williams? James Joyce? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Bukowski?” Me
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Hemingway
“Bleeding words…..things could be worse. I live for those days.” Me
“If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise; attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.”
H.G. Wells
“Yes, that’s why my light flickers on at three in the morning and I make notes on a tablet by my bed. And surprisingly it makes sense the next morning.” Me
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic which is inherent in the human condition.” Graham Greene
“If only more people would not fear their artistic side, but instead embrace it, it is truly therapy.” Me
“There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don’t love anyone; it is quite hopeless” – Alice Thomas Ellis
“I can’t reply, I’m laughing too hard.” Me
“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.” Lewis Carroll
“I love this quote and to think it comes from the rabbit hole that Alice fell down.” Me
Blessed are the weird people–poets, misfits, writers, mystics…painters & troubadours–for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” – Jacob Nordby
“I am in such good company as I am, myself, a poet, misfit, writer, painter, and, at times, a mystic. And I can only hope that I teach a few to see the world through different eyes and heart.” Me
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” Miles Davis
” So-called mistakes visit my writing all the time. So frequently does some amazing little bit show up that I have nicknamed them ‘happy accidents’
and I will take them all day long.” Me
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