Mack Gibson

“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.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.”
― Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978–1986