”The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life, and a log fire, like everyday life, is never boring.”
© 2018 Deborah Levy, The cost of living.
Tag: Writer
Bleeding
“Famously, the trick to good writing is bleeding onto the page.“
© 2018 Emilie Pine, Notes to self.
Hideouts
“Writers need to hide in bourgeois life like ticks need to hide in animal’s fur: the deeper they’re buried the better.”
© 2014 Rachel Cusk, Outline.
Writer’s Debris
“Occasionally I write directly in my small laptop, sheepishly glancing over to the shelf where my typewriter with its antiquated ribbon sits next to an obsolete Brother word processor. A nagging allegiance prevents me from scrapping either of them. Then there are scores of notebooks, their contents calling – confession, revelation, endless variations of the same paragraph – and piles of napkins scrawled with incomprehensible rants. Dried-out ink bottles, encrusted nibs, cartridges for pens long gone, mechanical pencils emptied of lead. Writer’s debris.”
© 2015 Patti Smith, M-Train.
Writer's Debris 