A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
“If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and at the end of it you will have done something.”
– Stephen Jeffreys, 1950-2018, British, playwright
Naked Cities Note [MN]: The Guardian’s Obituary for Stephen Jeffreys can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/18/stephen-jeffreys-obituary
“The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.”
– Aldous Huxley, as quoted by Mark Manson in: markmanson.net/why-the-best-things-in-life-are-all-backwards
The gods have been good to me… they really have…
– Charles Bukowski from an Interview in Bukowski Reads Bukowski
Ian Penman writes on the tragic life and enduring influence of the German literary critic …
via The Life and Influence of Walter Benjamin — RhysTranter.com
‘I am a kind Brahman in reverse who contemplates himself in agitation’
– Blaise Cendrars in Monique Chefdor’s, Introduction. Blaise Cendrars: A «symphonie contrastante.»
No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible force which may be likened to a third mind…
– William S. Burroughs on The Third Mind
No trouble, no story, no book, no film, no painting …
I will write in the notebook every day. [Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books]
– Susan Sontag in, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks from 2015]
‘Vigour and thirst, emotion in response to the formation which is neither to be seen nor to be explained… a will to the word: a being on its feet, an image, a construction that is unique and fervent, of a deep colour, intensity, communion with life.’
Tristan Tzara – in The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Poetry: 1820-1950, Edited, Translated and with Introductions on the poets by William Rees
An exceptional artist and in my opinion an even better writer Leonora Carrington was the inspiration for many of Max Ernst masterpieces, notably The Robing Of the Bride (see A Week of Max Ernst: Friday) and was in many aspects the archetypal Femme-Enfant of Surrealist desire; a dubious honour that Carrington, as one of the […]
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