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]
Thomas Carlyle – On Books
In books lies the soul of the whole past time when the articulate audible voice of the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream
– Inscription on the Mitchell Library building, Sydney New South Wales, Australia from The Hero as Man of Letters by Thomas Carlyle, 1840
Louise Bourgeois – On Childhood
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Louise Bourgeois in Destruction of the Father Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997.
Fernando Pessoa — The Vale of Soul-Making
I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses… If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that’s why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And […]
Reading Blanchot: Everyday Alienation — Pen and Screen
“My strangeness had as its cause all that which made me not seem strange to her. With horror she discovered in everything that was ordinary about her the source of everything that was extraordinary about me.” – Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
“… in the real world, every being who lives consciously has recourse to fiction; he is […]
How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com
Includes Susan Sontag, Hanya Yanagihara, Georges Perec, Samuel Pepys, Brian Evenson, Erica Jong, and more
via How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com
looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur
In 1971 I traveled to Paris for the first time. I mentioned finding a Balzac-like pension where I could stay for a couple of months that was around the corner from a former Hemingway apartment on rue Notre Dames des Champs and within easy walking distance from rue de Fleurus, the apartment of Gertrude Stein […]
via looking for hemingway, the lost generation, in the cafés–part 2 — un Voyageur
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
The racetrack to me is like the bullfights were to Hemingway — a place to study death and motion and your own character or lack of it.
– Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.
– Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
The writing arrives when it wants to. There is nothing you can do about it. You can’t squeeze more writing out of the living than is there.
– Charles Bukowski
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