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The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated.
The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive)
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.
I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.
Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication.
I suppose in a way most of my characters are non-consumers, not terribly interested in all the little baubles and artifacts of contemporary life.
Paranoid art, unlike paranoid persons, also distrusts itself. And so, paranoid art is the ultimate opposite, the urgent opposite, of complacent art.
Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse.
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.
Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.
How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory.
When people call something "original," 9 out of 10 times they just don't know the references or original sources involved.
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
I tend to think of myself as a highly emotional writer. It's all coming out of the deepest feelings, out of dreams, out of the unconscious.
Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.
I suppose there was never a reason for tearing down a cabin or scrapping a stopped automobile, if you had all those acres.
The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)
Writing is a necessity and often a pleasure, but at the same time, it can be a great burden and a terrible struggle.
Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.
I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.
I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.
I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.
Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.
Music still sort of hangs up there in the sky for me as this thing that moves me so much, but I can't really make it. It's like a car I can't drive.
Picture us, five floating nudists in oxygen masks, ragged with fatigue and degrees of schock, squeezing the last beads of antifreeze from our hair.
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
She reassembled her deranged silent treatment of the whole of the twentieth century, but it quit before she could fire it.
I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.
Anyone could see it all coming and no one could possibly stop it and that was the beautiful thing. Friday night was open wide and writ in stone
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Chaos didn't know what this meant. He kept feeling like somehow, intending to travel across land, he'd traveled through time instead.
I've always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.
I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.
(I)t was by Cicero's attainments that that he'd gained special witness to the liberals' adjustment to a brush with actual equality.
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.