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“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”
― My Reading Life
― My Reading Life
“The mortality rate of literary friendships is high. Writers tend to be bad risks as friends ~ probably for much the same reasons that they are bad matrimonial risks. They expend the best parts of themselves in their work. Moreover, literary ambition has a way of turning into literary competition; if fame is the spur, envy may be a concomitant.”
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“Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling.”
― A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement
― A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement
“I met a doctor the other night who told me he had always wanted to be a writer. I nodded. People always tell me that...Then I thought to myself, 'You know, I've never met a writer who wanted to be anything else. They might bitch about something they're writing or about their poverty, but they never say they want to quit...and if they do abandon it they become crazy, drunk or suicidal.' Writing is elemental.”
― Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
― Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
“At night it is better still. I used to lie on the pallet in the hall waiting until I could hear them all asleep, so I could get up and go back to the bucket. It would be black, the shelf black, the still surface of the water a round orifice in nothingness, where before I stirred it awake with the dipper I could see maybe a star or two in the bucket, and maybe in the dipper a star or two before I drank. After that I was bigger, older.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
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