“Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.”
― Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986
― Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986
“The room they lived in looked like the painting of Van Gogh’s room at Arles except there was a double bed and two big windows and you could look out across the water and the marsh and sea meadows to the white town and bright beach of Palavas.”
― The Garden of Eden
― The Garden of Eden
“The quail book is monumental, but dull. Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.”
― Ernest Hemingway on Writing
― Ernest Hemingway on Writing
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