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]
E.B White – On Writing
A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
Dreams of Desire 54 (Written on the Body) — cakeordeathsite
The German photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke concentrated almost entirely on montage techniques. Influenced by the great Dada and Surrealist innovators of the 1920’s and 30’s he experimented with solarisation and camera-less photographs. During WWII he turned to photographing small animals for scientific publications. The 1950’s however saw Hajek-Halke returning to experimental photography; he joined the fotoform […]
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“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors.” — Art of Quotation
“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore give yourself fully to your endeavors.”
Epictetus, Philosopher
THE ILLUSION OF TIME — Astrogirl
The concept of absolute time was abolished after Einstein’s mind-bending realization that time is nothing more than an illusion. Past, present and future exist simultaneously. Our past is not gone and our future already exists. What’s time? Killing time?Wasting time? Once upon a time? The most common phrases of all the time but What is […]
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.” — Art of Quotation
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation – an investigation of my own life.” Neil Simon, 1927-2018, playwright, Pulitzer Prize, Goodbye in 2018
So you want be a writer? – Charles Bukowski — Sniffin Poetry
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
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Carl Sandburg — The Vale of Soul-Making
Nothing happens unless first we dream. — Carl Sandburg
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want” — Art of Quotation
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want” F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender […]
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” — Art of Quotation
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” Erich Fromm, philosopher, author, sociologist
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